CAPEC-7: Blind SQL Injection

Detailed Draft 严重程度: High 攻击可能性: High

CAPEC版本: 3.9

更新日期: 2023-01-24

攻击模式描述

Blind SQL Injection results from an insufficient mitigation for SQL Injection. Although suppressing database error messages are considered best practice, the suppression alone is not sufficient to prevent SQL Injection. Blind SQL Injection is a form of SQL Injection that overcomes the lack of error messages. Without the error messages that facilitate SQL Injection, the adversary constructs input strings that probe the target through simple Boolean SQL expressions. The adversary can determine if the syntax and structure of the injection was successful based on whether the query was executed or not. Applied iteratively, the adversary determines how and where the target is vulnerable to SQL Injection.

执行流程

步骤 1 Explore

[Hypothesize SQL queries in application]

技术:
  • Research types of SQL queries and determine which ones could be used at various places in an application.
步骤 2 Explore

[Determine how to inject information into the queries]

技术:
  • Add clauses to the SQL queries such that the query logic does not change.
  • Add delays to the SQL queries in case server does not provide clear error messages (e.g. WAITFOR DELAY '0:0:10' in SQL Server or BENCHMARK(1000000000,MD5(1) in MySQL). If these can be injected into the queries, then the length of time that the server takes to respond reveals whether the query is injectable or not.
步骤 3 Experiment

[Determine user-controllable input susceptible to injection] Determine the user-controllable input susceptible to injection. For each user-controllable input that the adversary suspects is vulnerable to SQL injection, attempt to inject the values determined in the previous step. If an error does not occur, then the adversary knows that the SQL injection was successful.

技术:
  • Use web browser to inject input through text fields or through HTTP GET parameters.
  • Use a web application debugging tool such as Tamper Data, TamperIE, WebScarab,etc. to modify HTTP POST parameters, hidden fields, non-freeform fields, etc.
  • Use network-level packet injection tools such as netcat to inject input
  • Use modified client (modified by reverse engineering) to inject input.
步骤 4 Experiment

[Determine database type] Determines the type of the database, such as MS SQL Server or Oracle or MySQL, using logical conditions as part of the injected queries

技术:
  • Try injecting a string containing char(0x31)=char(0x31) (this evaluates to 1=1 in SQL Server only)
  • Try injecting a string containing 0x313D31 (this evaluates to 1=1 in MySQL only)
  • Inject other database-specific commands into input fields susceptible to SQL Injection. The adversary can determine the type of database that is running by checking whether the query executed successfully or not (i.e. whether the adversary received a normal response from the server or not).
步骤 5 Exploit

[Extract information about database schema] Extract information about database schema by getting the database to answer yes/no questions about the schema.

技术:
  • Automatically extract database schema using a tool such as Absinthe.
  • Manually perform the blind SQL Injection to extract desired information about the database schema.
步骤 6 Exploit

[Exploit SQL Injection vulnerability] Use the information obtained in the previous steps to successfully inject the database in order to bypass checks or modify, add, retrieve or delete data from the database

技术:
  • Use information about how to inject commands into SQL queries as well as information about the database schema to execute attacks such as dropping tables, inserting records, etc.

前提条件

  • SQL queries used by the application to store, retrieve or modify data.
  • User-controllable input that is not properly validated by the application as part of SQL queries.

所需技能

Medium Determining the database type and version, as well as the right number and type of parameters to the query being injected in the absence of error messages requires greater skill than reverse-engineering database error messages.

所需资源

  • None: No specialized resources are required to execute this type of attack.

后果影响

影响范围: Integrity

技术影响: Modify Data

影响范围: Confidentiality

技术影响: Read Data

影响范围: Confidentiality Integrity Availability

技术影响: Execute Unauthorized Commands

说明: Run Arbitrary Code

缓解措施

Security by Obscurity is not a solution to preventing SQL Injection. Rather than suppress error messages and exceptions, the application must handle them gracefully, returning either a custom error page or redirecting the user to a default page, without revealing any information about the database or the application internals.

Strong input validation - All user-controllable input must be validated and filtered for illegal characters as well as SQL content. Keywords such as UNION, SELECT or INSERT must be filtered in addition to characters such as a single-quote(') or SQL-comments (--) based on the context in which they appear.

示例实例

In the PHP application TimeSheet 1.1, an adversary can successfully retrieve username and password hashes from the database using Blind SQL Injection. If the adversary is aware of the local path structure, the adversary can also remotely execute arbitrary code and write the output of the injected queries to the local path. Blind SQL Injection is possible since the application does not properly sanitize the $_POST['username'] variable in the login.php file. See also: CVE-2006-4705

分类映射

分类名称 条目ID 条目名称
OWASP Attacks - Blind SQL Injection
关键信息

CAPEC ID: CAPEC-7

抽象级别: Detailed

状态: Draft

典型严重程度: High

攻击可能性: High

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