CVE-2008-5080

NameCVE-2008-5080
Descriptionawstats.pl in AWStats 6.8 and earlier does not properly remove quote characters, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the query_string parameter. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-3714.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1679-1
Debian Bugs495432

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
awstats (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)7.2+dfsg-1+deb8u1fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch7.6+dfsg-1+deb9u2fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)7.6+dfsg-2+deb10u2fixed
bullseye7.8-2+deb11u1fixed
bookworm7.8-3+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie7.9-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
awstatssourceetch6.5+dfsg-1+etch1DSA-1679-1
awstatssource(unstable)6.7.dfsg-5.1low495432
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