Thursday, 12 January 2012

sqlmap 0.9 Released – SQL Injection Tool


After a year of hardcore development, sqlmap 0.9 is out!
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 kick-ass 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  filesystem and executing commands on the  operating system via out-of-band connections.
New Features:
  • Rewritten SQL injection detection engine
  • Support to directly connect to the database without passing via a SQL injection, -d switch
  • Added full support for both time-based blind SQL injection and error-based SQL injection techniques
  • Implemented support for SQLite 2 and 3
  • Implemented support for Firebird
  • Implemented support for Microsoft Access,  Sybase and SAP MaxDB
  • Added support to tamper injection data with –tamper switch
  • Added automatic recognition of password hashes format and support to crack them with a dictionary-based attack
  • Added support to fetch unicode data
  • Added support to use persistent HTTP(s) connection for speed improvement, –keep-alive switch
  • Implemented several optimization switches to speed up the exploitation of SQL injections
  • Support to parse and test forms on target url, –forms switch
  • Added switches to brute-force tables names and columns names with a dictionary attack, –common-tables and –common-columns.
  

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