[CentOS] CentOS6 - Break in attempt? What is the Exploit?

Mon Sep 21 09:41:29 UTC 2015
Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>

well. sounds like some automatic deploytment tool? error ip ip address or
other configuration failure?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6356212/ant-scp-task-failure

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Eero

2015-09-21 11:29 GMT+03:00 James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>:

> This morning's log review revealed this sshd log entry on one of our
> web services hosts:
>
>  Received disconnect:
>     11: disconnected by user : 2 Time(s)
>     3: com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: reject HostKey: 216.185.71.170 :
> 1 Time(s)
>
>
> The IP address used is that of a public facing database query page for
> our freight transit information. It is itself a virtual IP address
> hosted on the system reporting the error.  In other words, if this
> were a legitimate connection then the situation would be that of an
> ssh client connecting to an sshd server running on the same host
> albeit each using a different IP address.  In other words, the
> hostkeys would be identical.
>
> It seems to me that someone attempted an ssh connection while spoofing
> our internal address.  Is such a thing even possible? If so then how
> does it work?
>
> What is com.jcraft.jsch?
>
>
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