[CentOS] Server Hacked: Cpanel

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:29:14PM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
> 	If they got in via SSH and all they did was deface his website
> they must be stand-up guys, huh? Most likely they just wrote an
> executable to his /tmp directory and then used apache's amazing
> recursion checking to execute it. This is the most common case I've seen
> on the dozens of cPanel 'hacks' I've encountered.

/tmp, /var/tmp and /dev/shm based compromizes do seem to account for
70%+ of the hacking on cPanel servers these days.

I blame canned script kiddies tools for that. It is simply the easiest
way to go.

Usually you will have a perl script there, so even nodev,noexec
won't stop that.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa
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