On 2014-09-26, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > On Fri, September 26, 2014 5:13 pm, John R Pierce wrote: >> >> linux apache web servers with the bash exploit are getting owned en >> masse today. my (patched) internet web server has logged 100s and >> 100s of attempts like... >> >> 66.186.2.172 - - [26/Sep/2014:00:49:29 -0700] "GET /cgi-bin/test.sh > > I feel really stupid, but I have to ask. If your server wasn't patched, it > only would have owned by the above if that file exists, is executable by > apache and it indeed invokes bash (say, has #!/bin/bash or whatever bash > location is as first line), right? ;-) At first glance I would agree with you, but then I would wonder, if that request wouldn't work almost anywhere, why are the skr1pt k1dd13s doing it? --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us