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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2023.1302
USN-5899-1: AWStats vulnerability
1 March 2023
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: AWStats
Publisher: Ubuntu
Operating System: Ubuntu
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2022-46391
Original Bulletin:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5899-1
Comment: CVSS (Max): 6.1 CVE-2022-46391 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVSS Source: NVD
Calculator: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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USN-5899-1: AWStats vulnerability
28 February 2023
AWStats could allow cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
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Releases
o Ubuntu 22.10
o Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
o Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
o Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
o Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
Packages
o awstats - powerful and featureful web server log analyzer
Details
It was discovered that AWStats did not properly sanitize the content of
whois responses in the hostinfo plugin. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and
Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.
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Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package
versions:
Ubuntu 22.10
o awstats - 7.8-2ubuntu0.22.10.1
Ubuntu 22.04
o awstats - 7.8-2ubuntu0.22.04.1
Ubuntu 20.04
o awstats - 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.04.2
Ubuntu 18.04
o awstats - 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.18.04.2
Ubuntu 16.04
o awstats - 7.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.4+esm2
Available with Ubuntu Pro
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
o CVE-2022-46391
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