Code injection in AWStats Totals - CVE-2008-3922
Published: April 23, 2018 / Updated: September 14, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12104
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2008-3922
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: Telartis
Affected software:
AWStats Totals
AWStats Totals
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists in awstatstotals.php due to code injection. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code via PHP sequences in the sort parameter, which is used by the multisort function when dynamically creating an anonymous PHP function.
The weakness exists in awstatstotals.php due to code injection. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code via PHP sequences in the sort parameter, which is used by the multisort function when dynamically creating an anonymous PHP function.
How to mitigate CVE-2008-3922
Update to version 1.15 or later.