full-disclosure - Anyone noticing an increase in IOS HTTP scanning?

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Message-ID: <BF3CC704.310D6%wo@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu Sep  1 19:56:13 2005
From: wo at andrew.cmu.edu (William O'Malley)
Subject: Anyone noticing an increase in IOS HTTP
	scanning?

Seen it from about 380 addresses on one day.  Very little overlap in the
address ranges that they scanned and attacked.  Odd to try something so old.
Even if it's just a test, that's a pretty noisy way to do it.


On 9/1/05 2:28 PM, "John Kinsella" <jlk@...ashyour.com> wrote:

> This was discussed on the NANOG list this morning, people seem to think
> it's somebody trying to leverage an IOS http auth vulnerability from 2001.
> 
> John
> 
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:23:38PM -0400, nms@...afore.ca wrote:
>> I have been getting at least 40 IOS HTTP Unauth Command Execution scans in
>> the last 12 hours. Every one has come from a different source IP, but they
>> are all located in Korea.
>> 
>> They are all trying to execute GET /level/16/exec/-///pwd HTTP/1.0 .
>> 
>> The stupid thing is, they are trying this on a bunch of web servers.
>> 
>> Has anyone else seen something like this? Before last night, there had never
>> been one of these on this network.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Paul Smith
>> 
> 
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