Empty New Directadmin System Messages - multiple servers

[SupermanInNY]

Hi All,

Today I got in dozens of servers an Empty Directadmin system message:

New Message:



Anyone else experienced such?
Is it a DA bug, or is it a some sort of an injection/attack?

An example from another server:

 

[DirectAdmin Sales]

It's an attempt to warn people about this:

Important: Upgrade your DirectAdmin to ensure compatibility with our new licensing system

We'd like to announce that we're shutting down our old licensing infrastructure. Our more advanced key-based system has been operating for months already, and we are now ready to formalize this system as the future of DirectAdmin licensing. If you are running any of our last three releases...

forum.directadmin.com

For some reason it's showing blank on certain servers. Could you tell us the exact DA version(s) and OS you are seeing these blank messages on?

We knew this would be buggy -- there so many old versions out there. In a way, the warning still "worked" if it got your attention and we could explain what it's about.

 

[SupermanInNY]

I see the issue is indeed on many old servers - trying to retire them as they are with old OS.

The exception is:

Compiled on	CentOS 7.0 64-Bit
Compile Date	Sep 26 2020, 18:16:00
Server Version	1.61.5
Current Available Version	1.634000
Last Updated	Tue Sep 29 13:30:35 2020
Last Restart	Mon Jan 3 04:02:02 2022

Where the DA version is a little older, but OS is new.