sqlmap/doc/ChangeLog

sqlmap (0.9-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Added support to directly connect to the database without passing via
    a SQL injection (Bernardo and Miroslav).
  * Added support for --roles for Oracle (Bernardo).
  * Added safe URL feature, --safe-url and --safe-freq (Miroslav).
  * Support for customizable HTTP redirections (Bernardo).
  * Implemented feature to speedup the enumeration of table names (Miroslav).
  * Major code refactoring (Bernardo).
  * Several bugs fixed (Bernardo and Miroslav).

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Day, DD MMM 2010 10:00:00 +0000

sqlmap (0.8-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Support to enumerate and dump all databases' tables containing user
    provided column(s) by specifying for instance '--dump -C user,pass'.
    Useful to identify for instance tables containing custom application
    credentials (Bernardo).
  * Support to parse -C (column name(s)) when fetching
    columns of a table with --columns: it will enumerate only columns like
    the provided one(s) within the specified table (Bernardo).
  * Support for takeover features on PostgreSQL 8.4 (Bernardo).
  * Enhanced --priv-esc to rely on new Metasploit Meterpreter's
    'getsystem' command to elevate privileges of the user running the
    back-end DBMS instance to SYSTEM on Windows (Bernardo).
  * Automatic support in --os-pwn to use the web uploader/backdoor to
    upload and execute the Metasploit payload stager when stacked queries
    SQL injection is not supported, for instance on MySQL/PHP and
    MySQL/ASP, but there is a writable folder within the web server
    document root (Bernardo and Miroslav).
  * Fixed web backdoor functionality for --os-cmd, --os-shell and --os-pwn
    useful when web application does not support stacked queries (Bernardo).
  * Added support to properly read (--read-file) also binary files via
    PostgreSQL by injecting sqlmap new sys_fileread() user-defined
    function (Bernardo and Miroslav).
  * Updated active fingerprint and comment injection fingerprint for
    MySQL 5.1, MySQL 5.4 and MySQL 5.5 (Bernardo).
  * Updated active fingerprint for PostgreSQL 8.4 (Bernardo).
  * Support for NTLM authentication via python-ntlm third party library,
    http://code.google.com/p/python-ntlm/, --auth-type NTLM (Bernardo).
  * Support to automatically decode deflate, gzip and x-gzip HTTP
    responses (Miroslav).
  * Support for Certificate authentication, --auth-cert option added
    (Miroslav).
  * Added support for regular expression based scope when parsing Burp or
    Web Scarab proxy log file (-l), --scope (Miroslav).
  * Added option (-r) to load a single HTTP request from a text file
    (Miroslav).
  * Added option (--ignore-proxy) to ignore system default HTTP proxy
    (Miroslav).
  * Added support to ignore Set-Cookie in HTTP responses,
    --drop-set-cookie (Miroslav).
  * Added support to specify which Google dork result page to parse,
    --gpage to be used together with -g (Miroslav).
  * Major bug fix and enhancements to the multi-threading (--threads)
    functionality (Miroslav).
  * Fixed URL encoding/decoding of GET/POST parameters and Cookie header
    (Miroslav).
  * Refactored --update to use python-svn third party library if available
    or 'svn' command to update sqlmap to the latest development version
    from subversion repository (Bernardo and Miroslav).
  * Major bugs fixed (Bernardo and Miroslav).
  * Cleanup of UDF source code repository,
    https://svn.sqlmap.org/sqlmap/trunk/sqlmap/extra/udfhack (Bernardo
    and Miroslav).
  * Major code cleanup (Miroslav).
  * Added simple file encryption/compression utility, extra/cloak/cloak.py,
    used by sqlmap to decrypt on the fly Churrasco, UPX executable and web
    shells consequently reducing drastically the number of anti-virus
    softwares that mistakenly mark sqlmap as a malware (Miroslav).
  * Updated user's manual (Bernardo and Miroslav).
  * Created several demo videos, hosted on YouTube
    (http://www.youtube.com/user/inquisb) and linked from
    http://sqlmap.sourceforge.net/demo.html (Bernardo).

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000

sqlmap (0.8rc1-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Major enhancement to the Microsoft SQL Server stored procedure
    heap-based buffer overflow exploit (--os-bof) to automatically bypass
    DEP memory protection.
  * Added support for MySQL and PostgreSQL to execute Metasploit shellcode
    via UDF 'sys_bineval' (in-memory, anti-forensics technique) as an
    option instead of uploading the standalone payload stager executable.
  * Added options for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server to
    read/add/delete Windows registry keys.
  * Added options for MySQL and PostgreSQL to inject custom user-defined
    functions.
  * Added support for --first and --last so the user now has even more
    granularity in what to enumerate in the query output.
  * Minor enhancement to save the session by default in
    'output/hostname/session' file if -s option is not specified.
  * Minor improvement to automatically remove sqlmap created temporary
    files from the DBMS underlying file system.
  * Minor bugs fixed.
  * Major code refactoring.

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:00:00 +0000

sqlmap (0.7-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Adapted Metasploit wrapping functions to work with latest 3.3
    development version too.
  * Adjusted code to make sqlmap 0.7 to work again on Mac OSX too.
  * Reset takeover OOB features (if any of --os-pwn, --os-smbrelay or
    --os-bof is selected) when running under Windows because msfconsole
    and msfcli are not supported on the native Windows Ruby interpreter.
    This make sqlmap 0.7 to work again on Windows too.
  * Minor improvement so that sqlmap tests also all parameters with no
    value (eg. par=).
  * HTTPS requests over HTTP proxy now work on either Python 2.4, 2.5 and
    2.6+.
  * Major bug fix to sql-query/sql-shell features.
  * Major bug fix in --read-file option.
  * Major silent bug fix to multi-threading functionality.
  * Fixed the web backdoor functionality (for MySQL) when (usually) stacked
    queries are not supported and --os-shell is provided.
  * Fixed MySQL 'comment injection' version fingerprint.
  * Fixed basic Microsoft SQL Server 2000 fingerprint.
  * Many minor bug fixes and code refactoring.

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:00:00 +0000

sqlmap (0.7rc1-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Added support to execute arbitrary commands on the database server
    underlying operating system either returning the standard output or not
    via UDF injection on MySQL and PostgreSQL and via xp_cmdshell() stored
    procedure on Microsoft SQL Server;
  * Added support for out-of-band connection between the attacker box and
    the database server underlying operating system via stand-alone payload
    stager created by Metasploit and supporting Meterpreter, shell and VNC
    payloads for both Windows and Linux;
  * Added support for out-of-band connection via Microsoft SQL Server 2000
    and 2005 'sp_replwritetovarbin' stored procedure heap-based buffer
    overflow (MS09-004) exploitation with multi-stage Metasploit payload
    support;
  * Added support for out-of-band connection via SMB reflection attack with
    UNC path request from the database server to the attacker box by using
    the Metasploit smb_relay exploit;
  * Added support to read and write (upload) both text and binary files on
    the database server underlying file system for MySQL, PostgreSQL and
    Microsoft SQL Server;
  * Added database process' user privilege escalation via Windows Access
    Tokens kidnapping on MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server via either
    Meterpreter's incognito extension or Churrasco stand-alone executable;
  * Speed up the inference algorithm by providing the minimum required
    charset for the query output;
  * Major bug fix in the comparison algorithm to correctly handle also the
    case that the url is stable and the False response changes the page
    content very little;
  * Many minor bug fixes, minor enhancements and layout adjustments.

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:30:00 +0000

sqlmap (0.6.4-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Major enhancement to make the comparison algorithm work properly also
    on url not stables automatically by using the difflib Sequence Matcher
    object;
  * Major enhancement to support SQL data definition statements, SQL data
    manipulation statements, etc from user in SQL query and SQL shell if
    stacked queries are supported by the web application technology;
  * Major speed increase in DBMS basic fingerprint;
  * Minor enhancement to support an option (--is-dba) to show if the
    current user is a database management system administrator;
  * Minor enhancement to support an option (--union-tech) to specify the
    technique to use to detect the number of columns used in the web
    application SELECT statement: NULL bruteforcing (default) or ORDER BY
    clause bruteforcing;
  * Added internal support to forge CASE statements, used only by --is-dba
    query at the moment;
  * Minor layout adjustment to the --update output;
  * Increased default timeout to 30 seconds;
  * Major bug fix to correctly handle custom SQL "limited" queries on
    Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle;
  * Major bug fix to avoid tracebacks when multiple targets are specified
    and one of them is not reachable;
  * Minor bug fix to make the Partial UNION query SQL injection technique
    work properly also on Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server;
  * Minor bug fix to make the --postfix work even if --prefix is not
    provided;
  * Updated documentation.

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Tue,  3 Feb 2009 23:30:00 +0000

sqlmap (0.6.3-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Major enhancement to get list of targets to test from Burp proxy
    (http://portswigger.net/suite/) requests log file path or WebScarab
    proxy (http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebScarab_Project)
    'conversations/' folder path by providing option -l <filepath>;
  * Major enhancement to support Partial UNION query SQL injection
    technique too;
  * Major enhancement to test if the web application technology supports
    stacked queries (multiple statements) by providing option
    --stacked-test which will be then used someday also by takeover
    functionality;
  * Major enhancement to test if the injectable parameter is affected by
    a time based blind SQL injection technique by providing option
    --time-test;
  * Minor enhancement to fingerprint the web server operating system and
    the web application technology by parsing some HTTP response headers;
  * Minor enhancement to fingerprint the back-end DBMS operating system by
    parsing the DBMS banner value when -b option is provided;
  * Minor enhancement to be able to specify the number of seconds before
    timeout the connection by providing option --timeout #, default is set
    to 10 seconds and must be 3 or higher;
  * Minor enhancement to be able to specify the number of seconds to wait
    between each HTTP request by providing option --delay #;
  * Minor enhancement to be able to get the injection payload --prefix and
    --postfix from user;
  * Minor enhancement to be able to enumerate table columns and dump table
    entries, also when the database name is not provided, by using the
    current database on MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, the 'public'
    scheme on PostgreSQL and the 'USERS' TABLESPACE_NAME on Oracle;
  * Minor enhancemet to support also --regexp, --excl-str and --excl-reg
    options rather than only --string when comparing HTTP responses page
    content;
  * Minor enhancement to be able to specify extra HTTP headers by providing
    option --headers. By default Accept, Accept-Language and Accept-Charset
    headers are set;
  * Minor improvement to be able to provide CU (as current user) as user
    value (-U) when enumerating users privileges or users passwords;
  * Minor improvements to sqlmap Debian package files;
  * Minor improvement to use Python psyco (http://psyco.sourceforge.net/)
    library if available to speed up the sqlmap algorithmic operations;
  * Minor improvement to retry the HTTP request up to three times in case
    an exception is raised during the connection to the target url;
  * Major bug fix to correctly enumerate columns on Microsoft SQL Server;
  * Major bug fix so that when the user provide a SELECT statement to be
    processed with an asterisk as columns, now it also work if in the FROM
    there is no database name specified;
  * Minor bug fix to correctly dump table entries when the column is
    provided;
  * Minor bug fix to correctly handle session.error, session.timeout and
    httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions in HTTP requests;
  * Minor bug fix to correctly catch connection exceptions and notify to
    the user also if they occur within a thread;
  * Increased default output level from 0 to 1;
  * Updated documentation.

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:00:00 +0000

sqlmap (0.6.2-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Major bug fix to correctly dump tables entries when --stop is not
    specified;
  * Major bug fix so that the users' privileges enumeration now works
    properly also on both MySQL < 5.0 and MySQL >= 5.0;
  * Major bug fix when the request is POST to also send the GET parameters
    if any have been provided;
  * Major bug fix to correctly update sqlmap to the latest stable release
    with command line --update;
  * Major bug fix so that when the expected value of a query (count
    variable) is an integer and, for some reasons, its resumed value from
    the session file is a string or a binary file, the query is executed
    again and its new output saved to the session file;
  * Minor bug fix in MySQL comment injection fingerprint technique;
  * Minor improvement to correctly enumerate tables, columns and dump
    tables entries on Oracle and on PostgreSQL when the database name is
    not 'public' schema or a system database;
  * Minor improvement to be able to dump entries on MySQL < 5.0 when
    database name, table name and column(s) are provided;
  * Updated the database management system fingerprint checks to correctly
    identify MySQL 5.1.x, MySQL 6.0.x and PostgreSQL 8.3;
  * More user-friendly warning messages.

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Sun,  2 Nov 2008 19:00:00 +0000

sqlmap (0.6.1-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Major bug fix to blind SQL injection bisection algorithm to handle an
    exception;
  * Added a Metasploit Framework 3 auxiliary module to run sqlmap;
  * Implemented possibility to test for and inject also on LIKE
    statements;
  * Implemented --start and --stop options to set the first and the last
    table entry to dump;
  * Added non-interactive/batch-mode (--batch) option to make it easy to
    wrap sqlmap in Metasploit and any other tool;
  * Minor enhancement to save also the length of query output in the
    session file when retrieving the query output length for ETA or for
    resume purposes;
  * Changed the order sqlmap dump table entries from column by column to
    row by row. Now it also dumps entries as they are stored in the tables,
    not forcing the entries' order alphabetically anymore;
  * Minor bug fix to correctly handle parameters' value with % character.

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Fri, 20 Oct 2008 10:00:00 +0000

sqlmap (0.6-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Complete code refactor and many bugs fixed;
  * Added multithreading support to set the maximum number of concurrent
    HTTP requests;
  * Implemented SQL shell (--sql-shell) functionality and fixed SQL query
    (--sql-query, before called -e) to be able to run whatever SELECT
    statement and get its output in both inband and blind SQL injection
    attack;
  * Added an option (--privileges) to retrieve DBMS users privileges, it
    also notifies if the user is a DBMS administrator;
  * Added support (-c) to read options from configuration file, an example
    of valid INI file is sqlmap.conf and support (--save) to save command
    line options on a configuration file;
  * Created a function that updates the whole sqlmap to the latest stable
    version available by running sqlmap with --update option;
  * Created sqlmap .deb (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.) and .rpm (Fedora, etc.)
    installation binary packages;
  * Created sqlmap .exe (Windows) portable executable;
  * Save a lot of more information to the session file, useful when
    resuming injection on the same target to not loose time on identifying
    injection, UNION fields and back-end DBMS twice or more times;
  * Improved automatic check for parenthesis when testing and forging SQL
    query vector;
  * Now it checks for SQL injection on all GET/POST/Cookie parameters then
    it lets the user select which parameter to perform the injection on in
    case that more than one is injectable;
  * Implemented support for HTTPS requests over HTTP(S) proxy;
  * Added a check to handle NULL or not available queries output;
  * More entropy (randomStr() and randomInt() functions in
    lib/core/common.py) in inband SQL injection concatenated query and in
    AND condition checks;
  * Improved XML files structure;
  * Implemented the possibility to change the HTTP Referer header;
  * Added support to resume from session file also when running with
    inband SQL injection attack;
  * Added an option (--os-shell) to execute operating system commands if
    the back-end DBMS is MySQL, the web server has the PHP engine active
    and permits write access on a directory within the document root;
  * Added a check to assure that the provided string to match (--string)
    is within the page content;
  * Fixed various queries in XML file;
  * Added LIMIT, ORDER BY and COUNT queries to the XML file and adapted
    the library to parse it;
  * Fixed password fetching function, mainly for Microsoft SQL Server and
    reviewed the password hashes parsing function;
  * Major bug fixed to avoid tracebacks when the testable parameter(s) is
    dynamic, but not injectable;
  * Enhanced logging system: added three more levels of verbosity to show
    also HTTP sent and received traffic;
  * Enhancement to handle Set-Cookie from target url and automatically
    re-establish the Session when it expires;
  * Added support to inject also on Set-Cookie parameters;
  * Implemented TAB completion and command history on both --sql-shell and
    --os-shell;
  * Renamed some command line options;
  * Added a conversion library;
  * Added code schema and reminders for future developments;
  * Added Copyright comment and $Id$;
  * Updated the command line layout and help messages;
  * Updated some docstrings;
  * Updated documentation files.

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Mon,  1 Sep 2008 10:00:00 +0100

sqlmap (0.5-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Added support for Oracle database management system
  * Extended inband SQL injection functionality (--union-use) to all
    other possible queries since it only worked with -e and --file on
    all DMBS plugins;
  * Added support to extract database users password hash on Microsoft
    SQL Server;
  * Added a fuzzer function with the aim to parse HTML page looking
    for standard database error messages consequently improving
    database fingerprinting;
  * Added support for SQL injection on HTTP Cookie and User-Agent headers;
  * Reviewed HTTP request library (lib/request.py) to support the
    extended inband SQL injection functionality. Splitted getValue()
    into getInband() and getBlind();
  * Major enhancements in common library and added checkForBrackets()
    method to check if the bracket(s) are needed to perform a UNION query
    SQL injection attack;
  * Implemented --dump-all functionality to dump entire DBMS data from
    all databases tables;
  * Added support to exclude DBMS system databases' when enumeration
    tables and dumping their entries (--exclude-sysdbs);
  * Implemented in Dump.dbTableValues() method the CSV file dumped data
    automatic saving in csv/ folder by default;
  * Added DB2, Informix and Sybase DBMS error messages and minor
    improvements in xml/errors.xml;
  * Major improvement in all three DBMS plugins so now sqlmap does not
    get entire databases' tables structure when all of database/table/
    column are specified to be dumped;
  * Important fixes in lib/option.py to make sqlmap properly work also
    with python 2.5 and handle the CSV dump files creation work also
    under Windows operating system, function __setCSVDir() and fixed
    also in lib/dump.py;
  * Minor enhancement in lib/injection.py to randomize the number
    requested to test the presence of a SQL injection affected parameter
    and implemented the possibilities to break (q) the for cycle when
    using the google dork option (-g);
  * Minor fix in lib/request.py to properly encode the url to request
    in case the "fixed" part of the url has blank spaces;
  * More minor layout enhancements in some libraries;
  * Renamed DMBS plugins;
  * Complete code refactoring, a lot of minor and some major fixes in
    libraries, many minor improvements;
  * Updated all documentation files.

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Sun,  4 Nov 2007 20:00:00 +0100

sqlmap (0.4-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Added DBMS fingerprint based also upon HTML error messages parsing
    defined in lib/parser.py which reads an XML file defining default
    error messages for each supported DBMS;
  * Added Microsoft SQL Server extensive DBMS fingerprint checks based
    upon accurate '@@version' parsing matching on an XML file to get also
    the exact patching level of the DBMS;
  * Added support for query ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) real time
    calculation (--eta);
  * Added support to extract database management system users password
    hash on MySQL and PostgreSQL (--passwords);
  * Added docstrings to all functions, classes and methods, consequently
    released the sqlmap development documentation
    <http://sqlmap.sourceforge.net/dev/>;
  * Implemented Google dorking feature (-g) to take advantage of Google
    results affected by SQL injection to perform other command line
    argument on their DBMS;
  * Improved logging functionality: passed from banal 'print' to Python
    native logging library;
  * Added support for more than one parameter in '-p' command line
    option;
  * Added support for HTTP Basic and Digest authentication methods
    (--basic-auth and --digest-auth);
  * Added the command line option '--remote-dbms' to manually specify
    the remote DBMS;
  * Major improvements in union.UnionCheck() and union.UnionUse()
    functions to make it possible to exploit inband SQL injection also
    with database comment characters ('--' and '#') in UNION query
    statements;
  * Added the possibility to save the output into a file while performing
    the queries (-o OUTPUTFILE) so it is possible to stop and resume the
    same query output retrieving in a second time (--resume);
  * Added support to specify the database table column to enumerate
    (-C COL);
  * Added inband SQL injection (UNION query) support (--union-use);
  * Complete code refactoring, a lot of minor and some major fixes in
    libraries, many minor improvements;
  * Reviewed the directory tree structure;
  * Splitted lib/common.py: inband injection functionalities now are
    moved to lib/union.py;
  * Updated documentation files.

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:00:00 +0100

sqlmap (0.3-1) stable; urgency=low

  * Added module for MS SQL Server;
  * Strongly improved MySQL dbms active fingerprint and added MySQL
    comment injection check;
  * Added PostgreSQL dbms active fingerprint;
  * Added support for string match (--string);
  * Added support for UNION check (--union-check);
  * Removed duplicated code, delegated most of features to the engine
    in common.py and option.py;
  * Added support for --data command line argument to pass the string
    for POST requests;
  * Added encodeParams() method to encode url parameters before making
    http request;
  * Many bug fixes;
  * Rewritten documentation files;
  * Complete code restyling.

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:00:00 +0100

sqlmap (0.2-1) stable; urgency=low

  * complete refactor of entire program;
  * added TODO and THANKS files;
  * added some papers references in README file;
  * moved headers to user-agents.txt, now -f parameter specifies a file
    (user-agents.txt) and randomize the selection of User-Agent header;
  * strongly improved program plugins (mysqlmap.py and postgres.py),
    major enhancements:
    * improved active mysql fingerprint check_dbms();
    * improved enumeration functions for both databases;
    * minor changes in the unescape() functions;
  * replaced old inference algorithm with a new bisection algorithm.
  * reviewed command line parameters, now with -p it's possible to
    specify the parameter you know it's vulnerable to sql injection,
    this way the script won't perform the sql injection checks itself;
    removed the TOKEN parameter;
  * improved Common class, adding support for http proxy and http post
    method in hash_page;
  * added OptionCheck class in option.py which performs all needed checks
    on command line parameters and values;
  * added InjectionCheck class in injection.py which performs check on
    url stability, dynamics of parameters and injection on dynamic url
    parameters;
  * improved output methods in dump.py;
  * layout enhancement on main program file (sqlmap.py), adapted to call
    new option/injection classes and improvements on catching of
    exceptions.

 -- Bernardo Damele A. G. <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>  Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:00:00 +0100