Re: [Catalog-sig] Attempts to hack pypi?

2011-12-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> ...which looks a lot like someone trying to hack information from the > PyPI server, so thought I'd let you know... People are encouraged to review the code, but I'm fairly sure that these attempts are futile. ISTM that this is a generic attack to try to fill out parameters that remotely look li

[Catalog-sig] Attempts to hack pypi?

2011-12-02 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, I got these from a logwatch warning on my server: /pypi?:action=/../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00&digest=517d7c7014d2b581f321d500eed4305e HTTP Response 302 /pypi?%3Aaction=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP Response 302 /pypi?%3Aaction=../../../../../../.