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You're reading from Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite Use Burp Suite and its features to inspect, detect, and exploit security vulnerabilities in your web applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788994064

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Burp Suite

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (3):

Dhruv Shah

Riyaz Ahemed Walikar

Carlos A. Lozano

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Configuring Burp Suite FREE CHAPTER

2. Configuring the Client and Setting Up Mobile Devices

3. Executing an Application Penetration Test

4. Exploring the Stages of an Application Penetration Test

5. Preparing for an Application Penetration Test

6. Identifying Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite

7. Detecting Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite

8. Exploiting Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite - Part 1

9. Exploiting Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite - Part 2

10. Writing Burp Suite Extensions

11. Breaking the Authentication for a Large Online Retailer

12. Exploiting and Exfiltrating Data from a Large Shipping Corporation

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Executing OS commands using an SQL injection

One of the most severe impacts of SQL injection attacks is the command execution at the OS level. Most of the time, if the user executes system commands, this results in the whole server and the application being compromised.

The vulnerability

The command injection vulnerabilities into SQL injections usually occur because the DBMS has a stored procedure or an allowed native option, which interacts directly with the OS. For example, xp_cmdshell on SQL Server, or a specially stored procedure developed in Java for Oracle.

In some cases, it is also possible that the application stores the database strings that are extracted by a query and executed; so, if we can update the database, we could inject a command into the server. However, as I mentioned, this is not a common case.

Once we have detected a vulnerability related to command injection, we can use Burp Suite to exploit it. For example, let's examine the following request from an application: