Re: MS Access+pen-test

["Jim Halfpenny" <jimsmailinglists@gmail.com>]

On 13 Jun 2007 19:55:07 -0000, wymerzp@sbu.edu <wymerzp@sbu.edu> wrote:
> I was looking over a client's website when I discovered a classic (almost 
> cliche) sql injection vulnerability (i.e. Username ' OR ''=' | Password ' OR 
> ''='). I did more poking and prodding and discovered that they are using MS 
> Access for a backend. I know you can't string queries together (i.e. Select 
> user from tbl where blah = var; Select...). My question is then, is there any 
> 'good way' to use sql injection against this database to drive home the 
> severity of the lack of input validation? Currently, the best I got was access 
> to non-sensitive information that one simply needed to supply an email for.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Zach
If any of the error messages give a clue as to the location of the
database .mdb file see if you can download it. Another common mistake
is to put the database in the web root somewhere.

Regards,
Jim Halfpenny

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