Hi Eliot,

It’s difficult to tell which requests are sent to BaseX. Maybe you can use
a networking monitoring tool such as Wireshark to get more hints?

Best,
Christian


On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 11:59 PM Eliot Kimber <eliot.kim...@servicenow.com>
wrote:

> I have an application (our Mirabel system) running on a server inside our
> firewall (so not visible to the open Internet).
>
>
>
> I’ve recently started seeing messages like this in the log:
>
> Access denied: ����.
>
> Access denied: PRI * HTTP/2.0 SM .
>
>
>
> Where the value reported can be quite varied, but is often unrenderable
> characters or other stuff. (In this case the characters are all \uFFFD).
>
> The log messages all report the same IP address.
>
>
>
> This server does not use named users, so there’s no authentication
> required to access it.
>
>
>
> The IP address is not one of my own servers, so I don’t think it’s
> something generated by my own code.
>
>
>
> Any idea what this might be? It’s started relatively recently, which makes
> me think it might be some sort of penetration test.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> E.
>
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