| Name | CVE-2025-63261 |
| Description | AWStats 8.0 is vulnerable to Command Injection via the open function |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-4509-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1131878 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| awstats (PTS) | bullseye | 7.8-2+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 7.8-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 7.8-3+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 7.9-1 | vulnerable |
| forky | 8.0-4 | vulnerable |
| sid | 8.0-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://pentest-tools.com/PTT-2025-021-Code-Execution-in-AWStats.pdf
https://github.com/eldy/AWStats/issues/287
Crosses no reasonable security boundary, requires an attacker to modify awstats.conf