Brute forcing a M$ SQL Server password through SQL Injection

From: Roman Medina (roman@rs-labs.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 05:34:06 PST

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     Hello,
    
     I hope somebody can help me :-) Let's suppose the following scenario:
    a web app running on IIS. The app is written in ASP and has a
    search.asp script, which is not checked/secured against SQL injection.
    All data is stored in an updated SQL Server 2000 SP3. The search
    script is using a very limited SQL non-priviledged user so although
    you can inject SQL sentencies, in practice you can perform write
    operations such as insert, update, drop, etc. Indeed, select
    permission is only granted in a few tables. Stored procedures seems
    also protected (you cannot execute them). You can do "select" on some
    system tables, nothing more. The goal is to elevate priviledges.
    
     How would you achieve this? I'm not a SQL Server expert at all, so
    perhaps you have any ideas to share with me. I've thought of
    bruteforcing any of the SQL users (like "sa"), but:
    - do you think it could be a good idea? Which maximum length of
    password would be reasonable or candidate to be broken in such a way?
    - is it possible to run a SQL script through vulnerable .asp using SQL
    injection, to perform the bruteforce attack? (I think such way is the
    only valid one, to get an aceptable cracking speed)
    - in that case, could you provide some test code for it?
    
     Any other ideas are greatly welcome. Thanks in advance.
    
     Regards,
     --Roman
    
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