[WEB SECURITY] Announcing Scrawlr: SQL Injector and Crawler
Zinho
zinho at hackerscenter.com
Wed Jun 25 04:03:58 EDT 2008
This is probably the best option for an ASP website owner
Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection tool is available to
find SQL injection vulnerabilities in ASP code
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954476
It should be able to check all kind of sqlinjections (at least
theoretically) not only those used by the recent botnets.
It points you to the faulty code. Some average level of ASP coding will
be then required to fix it but from the advisory I read:
"In addition to the tool itself, there is documentation included on ways
to fix the problems it finds in the code it analyzes"
So this should be very helpful.
I haven't tested it personally but a drawback here could be that it
doesn't demonstrate the existence of the sqli showing tables names. And
Billy is right, this is a greatly incentivising to go fix that bugs.
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Oliver Lavery ha scritto:
> I’d just like to add a positive voice to the chorus. I haven’t looked
> at Scrawlr yet, and most likely won’t, but the initiative is quite
> interesting coming from major software firms.
>
> Small, sharp, targeted solutions do have a very important place in
> preventing mass exploitation of vulnerabilities, and given that HTTP
> applications are a very weak link in the chain (of tubes), it’s nice
> to see vendors actively confronting the issue. A little surprising,
> but nice.
>
> Based on the description on this list, it sounds like the advisory
> might be trumpeting a little loudly:
>
> “[HP Scrawlr will] Test all discovered links for verbose SQL injection
> by sending HTTP requests containing SQL injection attack strings in
> form fields, querystring parameters, and cookie values.”
>
> But throwing a hat into the arena, publishing an advisory, releasing
> several free tools, and offering free support for users impacted by an
> issue that’s not provably *entirely* the vendor’s fault is certainly a
> welcome change from “if every developer always followed our guidelines
> to the letter this would be a non-issue”.
>
> Cheers,
> ~ol
> ---
> Oliver Lavery
> Security Compass
> http://www.securitycompass.com/
>
> “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature....
> Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
> -- Helen Keller
>
>
> On 24/06/08 7:34 PM, "Hoffman, Billy" <billy.hoffman at hp.com> wrote:
>
> Michael, Zinho,
>
> I'm not sure why people seem to think Scrawlr is a replacement for
> existing tools like Absinthe or Nikto or Burp, etc. Its not and
> I'm sorry if you got that impression.
>
> Scrawlr exists for one reason: Some crazy hackers who read Chinese
> built this:
> http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4294
>
> Microsoft came to us for that specific need. To help them provide
> developers with tools to prevent these mass exploits. Because the
> attack tool leverages search engines to find target pages Scrawlr
> crawls and behaves like an indexing spider. It then SQL injection
> all query parameters exactly like the attack tool. We then extract
> all the user tables (be it Oracle, MSSQL, Mysql >=5, etc) to
> confirm SQL injection before flagging it. I'm very happy with our
> results.
>
> Is the tool going to find issues behind auth or forms or other web
> components? No, but neither will the attackers using this mass
> exploit tool. Can they change tactics and use, for example, Nikto
> or Burp? Sure.
>
> Could we have released Scrawlr as more of a WI Lite? Yes, but that
> was never its intent. And if you need something that's more robust
> by all means grab a free trial of WI or another vendor, or Burp,
> or Nikto or script some w3af.
>
> Zinho, if you are finding bugs I'd love to learn more about them
> and get them fixed. Scrawlr supports proxies so that will help you
> see what is going on. Did the vuln page get crawled?
>
> At the end of the day it's a free tool folks designed to solve a
> certain issue. I'm certainly open to more feedback but let's keep
> its original goals in perspective.
>
> Thanks,
> Billy Hoffman
> --
> Manager, HP Web Security Research Group
> HP Software - Application Security Center
> Direct: 770-343-7069
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zinho [mailto:zinho at hackerscenter.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:04 PM
> To: websecurity at webappsec.org
> Subject: Re: [WEB SECURITY] Announcing Scrawlr: SQL Injector and
> Crawler
>
> I have to agree with Michael. I tested it on both simple ASP and PHP
> pages with a clear sql injection. Nothing. The tool doesn't even
> seem to
> check for blind sqli.
> I think it merely gets the server's response and looks for known SQL
> errors. Not mentioning the limited crawling capabilities.
> I would have expected something more from HP/MS. Free tools around
> do a
> much better job.
>
> http://www.hackerscenter.com/index.php?/Blogs/2819-HP-and-MS-give-us-a-new-SQL-Injection-tool.html
>
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>
> Michael S. Menefee ha scritto:
> > Billy,
> >
> > Although this is indeed a good step, there are already a plethora of
> > "free" sql injection scanners or exploiters that kick the crap out of
> > this tool.
> >
> > However, I am extremely excited to see this kind of development
> in the
> > commercial space, and would like to see some enhancements to this
> > product. Now, if HPs goal is to push their commercial tools ($$$) by
> > pushing a limited "free" version, then I suppose none of this
> will ever
> > happen, but *at a minimum* it would be nice to be able to either
> modify
> > headers or input credentials where public sites are not the target.
> >
> > I tested this on 3 sites I knew to be vulnerable to SQL injection
> (all
> > ASP.NET, MSSQL), but either cookies or authentication were
> required to
> > actually test in these case, hence nothing was discovered with this
> > tool(lame).
> >
> > There's nothing worse than a free version of a product designed
> > exclusively for you to be left "wanting" and thinking about
> purchasing
> > the commercial version.
> >
> > If there are unseen or hidden options to this tool, forgive me,
> > otherwise I don't really see the value when so many better free tools
> > exist (Pangolin, Absinthe, Magic, Power Injector, etc, etc, etc)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hoffman, Billy [mailto:billy.hoffman at hp.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:35 PM
> > To: websecurity at webappsec.org
> > Subject: [WEB SECURITY] Announcing Scrawlr: SQL Injector and Crawler
> >
> > In response to all the Mass SQL Injection attacks this year,
> Microsoft
> > approached HP and the Web Security Research Group (formerly SPI Labs)
> > for assistance. While there was nothing they could patch, Microsoft
> > wanted to provide tools to help developers find and fix these issues.
> > After a month of development HP created Scrawlr.
> >
> > Scrawlr (short for SQL Injector and Crawler) is a free tool that will
> > crawl a website while simultaneously analyzing the parameters of each
> > individual web page for SQL Injection vulnerabilities. Scrawlr was
> > designed specifically to help protect against these mass injection
> > attack which are using Google queries to find older web
> applications and
> > automatically injection them. As such, Scrawlr crawls a websites
> using
> > the same techniques as a search engine: it doesn't keep state, or
> submit
> > forms, or execute JavaScript or Flash. This Scrawl is finding and
> > auditing the pages that would have been indexed by the search
> engines.
> >
> > To reduce false positives Scrawlr provides proof of the vulnerability
> > results by displaying the type of backend database in use and a
> list of
> > available table names. There is no denying you have SQL Injection
> when I
> > can show you table names!
> >
> > Microsoft Announcement here:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/954462.mspx
> > HP WSRG Blog:
> > http://www.communities.hp.com/securitysoftware/blogs/spilabs/archive/200
> > 8/06/23/finding-sql-injection-with-scrawlr.aspx
> > Download here: https://download.spidynamics.com/Products/scrawlr/
> >
> > Enjoy,
> > Billy Hoffman
> > --
> > Manager, HP Web Security Research Group
> > HP Software - Application Security Center
> > Direct: 770-343-7069
> >
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