[Systems] /srv/upload/activities2 was world-writable!

Sam P. sam at sam.today
Mon Feb 15 06:02:18 EST 2016


It's for ALSO2, and wow, I thought that I had dodgy stuff happening, but I
didn't know it was that dodgy.

I'll defiantly invest some time to clean up that mess asap.  (Like kill it)

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:46 AM Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:

> What's this directory for, and why was it world-writable?
>
> This is very dangerous, people could have abused it to upload warez over
> anonymous ftp.
>
> Anyway, I disabled the ftp service since it seems that these days we're
> only getting connections from suspicious IPs (most were from china).
>
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