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#13743 Double IP-adresses in Security Exception Log warnings

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:06 CDT

user41123
Mandatory information about my setup:

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Joomla! version: 2.5.7
PHP version: 5.3.x
MySQL version: (unknown)
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Admin Tools version: 2.4.0 Pro

Description of my issue:

Hi Nicholas,

Since the last update I recieve sometimes weird Security Exception Log warnings like this:

IP Adres: 10.0.0.92, 201.36.XXX.XXX
Reason: http://ip-lookup.net/index.php?ip=10.0.0.92, 201.36.159.201

And after an automatic block after three attemps the IP adres '0.0.0.0' is blocked. Obviously the WAF can't handle this combination of two IP-adresses?

How is it possible that two IP-adresses try "illegal actions" at the same time? In most cases the actions try to login into the website with target URL's like these: http://website.com/user/login/index.php or http://website.com/wp-login.php.
Off course these attemps are useless and will never work.

I've never seen this behaviour before in my logs. Any idea?

Greetings, Paul

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I think this is a bug / feature of the web server or proxy software you are using. The 10.0.0.x addresses belong to the IP private address space, not used in public networks (see RFC 1918, §3). It's the first time I've seen that, but it seems that it's not uncommon.

I just made a modification in Admin Tools to catch those cases. You can find it in the latest dev release. Please install and verify the fix as I can't reproduce this on my testing servers. Thank you in advance!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
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user41123
Hi Nicholas,

I just installed the DEV-release and will let you know the results a.s.a.p.

Have a save trip back.

Greetings, Paul

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
All right! Let me know how it works.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

user41123
Hi Nicholas,

Since I installed the DEV release no more double IP-adresses are logged in the Security Exception List so I suppose you fixed this issue.

Thanks for your support!

Greetings, Paul

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Great! Thank you for the feedback :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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