Re: Pentesting on databases?

To follow up on Eric's answer, I recommend sqlmap, you can use it to test SQL injection, and it does a very good job at that.
Also if you managed to find valid credentials for the database, you can use it to connect to the database directly and perform multiple operations such as select, insert, drop, etc. As Eric mentioned.

Ahmed


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On Mar 21, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Eric Schultz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey stayp0s,
> 
> here are a few things you may want to test:
> 
> 1.SA accounts with blank passwords
> 2.Unauthorized user accounts that can access the DB. For MSSQL,
> sometimes the domain user group gets added to the access list.
> 3.SQL injection on the applications that use the database
> 4.Open shares/applications on the database server
> 5. Any unpatched vulnerabilties (nmap can display service pack level I believe)
> 
> For the first two, you can use metasploit modules. for MSSQL, the
> auxillary/admin/mssql/mssql_enum module has given me good information,
> excpet the publically availible stored procedures returned a few false
> positives (the stored procedures didnt exist, but the module said they
> could be run).
> 
> If you find valid credentials, you can use a program to test
> conenctivity to the database and see if you can read/modify/insert
> data, views or edit functions. I use Navicat, but the free version
> stopped being offered. There should be similar tools out there.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Eric Schultz
> Blue Canopy
> 
> 
> On 3/21/12, stayp0s <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> I'm planning do a pen testing to ensure running databases(mysql,
>> postgreSQL, and so on) are secure.
>> Anyone has useful reference guidelines about that?
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> 
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