my mambo has been hacked

mole_13 · 11-22-2005, 05:49 AM

hi everyone,

i just recently installed my slack box, the installed a webserver with mambo 4.5.2 running on it.u

i just make a check routine that somebody has placed a folder in the mambo/media folder and filled it with his files.

how can i prevent such things to happen?

merci.

fouldsy · 11-22-2005, 05:55 AM

A ton of things. Check the tutorials section for general security settigns to lock your Linux box down such as preventing FTP, increase the Apache security by checking over permissions on your hosts, or, the most obvious, follow the Mamba instructions with regards to applying security permissions on the relevant files + folders so they can't be manipulated across the net.

unSpawn · 11-22-2005, 06:51 AM

The "most obvious", next to proper system hardening, would be to be on the Mambo, SecurityFocus, Linux Security or Secunia mailinglist. You would then have seen this coming (SF BID 15461).

mole_13 · 11-23-2005, 07:13 AM

hi all!

thanks for your reply.

i would just like to ask since im a newbie, how did he get into my box through mambo?, port 80 is the only open port
in my box.

does this mean there are problems for apache?, and PHP (talking of security).

anybody heard of Zope?

thanks in advance for your inputs.

really appreciate it.

di11rod · 11-23-2005, 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mole_13

i would just like to ask since im a newbie, how did he get into my box through mambo?, port 80 is the only open port
in my box.

These web applications like Mambo can allow a person to execute code by crafting devious URLs that pass commands to the PHP interpreter. In your case, it sounds like Mambo itself was comprimised in that the attacker created a privileged Mambo user account and then uploaded some files within Mambo. Might not mean they escalated the linux user privs, but you will need to check that out yourself. Do a search with rkhunter to see if you've been rooted.

di11rod

lin4me · 11-25-2005, 01:30 PM

Get a security patch from mambo site. I think this was a security compromise through the media manager of mambo and has been addresses in the lastest release/patch.

mole_13 · 11-26-2005, 03:23 AM

yes your right.

he installed some malicious files in my media folder at mamo.

thank you so much.