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CVE-2017-1000501

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-1000501 describes a critical path traversal vulnerability in Awstats versions 7.6 and earlier, impacting Awstats and Debian Linux distributions. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote code execution due to improper handling of the "config" and "migrate" parameters. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), it presents a high risk as it can be exploited over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been observed, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 86/100 warrants attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 7.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0435 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / eldy/awstats/commit/06c0ab29c1e5059d9e0279c6b64d573d619e1651
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / eldy/awstats/commit/cf219843a74c951bf5986f3a7fffa3dcf99c3899
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00012.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202007-37
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4092
Third Party Advisory
awstats.org
Vendor Advisory