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Re: Reconfiguring cmdshell


From: 596 <infosecurity.email () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:49:26 -0700


Reminds me of an old American Indian proverb - if you see a small bear in the woods don't be happy, there is always a 
bigger bear behind it. "Beware of the next level".

- 596


On Jun 30, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Smiling Buddha wrote:

Hi,

I am on a pentest assignment and have encountered an sql injection
vulnerability with an SQL Server 2005 in the background, complete with
dbo level access. I have successfully retrieved DB values and have
already presented as evidence. Now, i am directed to take the attack
to the next level and see the extent of the problem.

I am trying to run the xp_cmdshell stored procedure.
To ensure xp_cmdshell is enabled, i am running the following two queries:

EXEC master..sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', '1'
RECONFIGURE
in the vulnerable parameter as:

';EXEC master..sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', '1''     - This query
replies without any error

But when i append RECONFIGURE the following it returns an error:

';EXEC master..sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', '1';RECONFIGURE'   -
Incorrect syntax near "


I looked up the sp_configure functionality and don't see any
syntactical error, maybe the sequence, or incorrectly formed stacked
query.

Any suggestions?


Thanx.

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