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Introduction

sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections.

Features

  • Full support for MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, SQLite, Firebird, Sybase and SAP MaxDB database management systems.
  • Full support for five SQL injection techniques: boolean-based blind, time-based blind, error-based, UNION query and stacked queries.
  • Support to directly connect to the database without passing via a SQL injection, by providing DBMS credentials, IP address, port and database name.
  • Support to enumerate database users, users' password hashes, users' privileges, users' roles, databases, tables and columns.
  • Automatic recognition of password hashes format and support to crack them with a dictionary-based attack.
  • Support to dump database tables entirely, a range of entries or specific columns as per user's choice. The user can also choose to dump only a range of characters from each column's entry.
  • Support to search for specific database names, specific tables across all databases or specific columns across all databases' tables. This is useful, for instance, to identify tables containing custom application credentials where relevant columns' names contain string like name and pass.
  • Support to download and upload any file from the database server underlying file system when the database software is MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Support to execute arbitrary commands and retrieve their standard output on the database server underlying operating system when the database software is MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Support to establish an out-of-band stateful TCP connection between the attacker machine and the database server underlying operating system. This channel can be an interactive command prompt, a Meterpreter session or a graphical user interface (VNC) session as per user's choice.
  • Support for database process' user privilege escalation via Metasploit's getsystem command which include, among others, the kitrap0d technique ( MS10-015).

Download

sqlmap can be downloaded from its SourceForge File List page. It is available in two formats:

You can also checkout the latest development version from the subversion repository:

$ svn checkout https://svn.sqlmap.org/sqlmap/trunk/sqlmap sqlmap-dev

This is strongly recommended before reporting any bug to the mailing list.

Documentation

  • sqlmap user's manual (HTML and PDF).
  • sqlmap ChangeLog and history.
  • SQL injection: Not only AND 1=1 slides presented by Bernardo at the 2nd Digital Security Forum in Lisbon (Portugal) on June 27, 2009.
  • Advanced SQL injection to operating system full control whitepaper and slides presented by Bernardo at Black Hat Europe 2009 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on April 16, 2009.
  • Expanding the control over the operating system from the database slides presented by Bernardo at SOURCE Conference 2009 in Barcelona (Spain) on September 21, 2009.
  • Got database access? Own the network! slides presented by Bernardo at AthCon 2010 in Athens (Greece) on June 3, 2010.
  • sqlmap - security development in python slides presented by Miroslav at EuroPython 2011 in Firenze (Italy) on June 23, 2011.
  • It all starts with the ' (SQL injection from attacker's point of view) slides presented by Miroslav at FSec - FOI Security Symposium in Varazdin (Croatia) on September 23, 2011.

Demo

Mailing list

Mailing list

The sqlmap-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list is the preferred way to ask questions, report bugs, suggest new features and discuss with other users, contributors and the developers. To subscribe use the online web form.
The mailing list is archived online on SourceForge, Gmane and is available also via Gmane RSS feed.

License

License

sqlmap is released under the terms of the General Public License v2. sqlmap is copyrighted by its developers.



Developers

Bernardo Damele A. G. (@inquisb) - Lead developer
PGP Key ID: Unavailable


Miroslav Stampar (@stamparm) - Developer
PGP Key ID: 0xB5397B1B

You can contact both developers by writing to dev@sqlmap.org.

Contribute

Contribute

We are looking for people who can write some clean Python code, are up to do security research, know about web application security, database assessment and takeover, software refactoring and are motivated to join the development team.

If this sounds interesting to you, get in touch!

Donate

Donate
Your donation will please the development team - It will pay for the subversion server's bills and ideally for some night-life around the damn good old Continent.