Re: Unknown: file created in the system's temporary directory

Benjamin Lees <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki
Message-ID <CAL04nz97-0r1eDufM4VhUwLsZfQ0kkYNeogqf9QACB1uj4k1Tg@mail.gmail.com>
I am not sure this necessarily refers to the upload temp directory.
Anyway, did you look at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74189 ?
(The port used in that log entry appears to be the one that Gitblit
defaults to, incidentally.)

On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 3:48 PM Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm seeing some funny business in our log files.
>
> [Thu Apr 08 10:52:20.225624 2021] [php7:notice] [pid 1823] [client
> 71.179.5.32:29418] PHP Notice:  Unknown: file created in the system's
> temporary directory in Unknown on line 0, referer:
> https://www.cryptopp.com/w/index.php?title=Linux&action=edit
>
> We override the upload directory for Apache, so nothing should be
> written to the system's temporary directory:
>
> # grep -IR 'temp_dir' /etc
> /etc/php/7.4/cli/php.ini:; Defaults to the system default (see
> sys_get_temp_dir)
> /etc/php/7.4/cli/php.ini:;sys_temp_dir = "/tmp"
> /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini:; Defaults to the system default (see
> sys_get_temp_dir)
> /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini:sys_temp_dir = "/var/lib/php/tmp"
>
> And:
>
> # ls -Al /var/lib/php
> drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 31 17:04 modules
> drwx-wx-wt 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 27  2020 sessions
> drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr  8 11:37 tmp
>
> And:
>
> # grep base /etc/php/7.4/apache2/conf.d/99-security.ini
> open_basedir="/var/www/html/:/var/lib/php/"
>
> We are not sure what is going on. I guess we missed a setting somewhere.
>
> How is the attacker creating files on the system given they are not logged
> in?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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