CVE-2017-1000501: Awstats

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Awstats version 7.6 and earlier is vulnerable to a path traversal flaw in the handling of the "config" and "migrate" parameters resulting in unauthenticated remote code execution.

Affected products

• Awstats Awstats: up to and including 7.6.0
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2018-01-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.