Difference between revisions of "Testing for SQL Wildcard Attacks (OWASP-DS-001)"

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OWASP Testing Guide v3 Table of Contents

This article is part of the OWASP Testing Guide v3. The entire OWASP Testing Guide v3 can be downloaded here.

OWASP at the moment is working at the OWASP Testing Guide v4: you can browse the Guide here

This is a draft of a section of the new Testing Guide v3

Brief Summary

SQL Wildcard Attacks are about forcing the underlying database to carry out CPU intensive queries by using several wildcards. This vulnerability generally exists in search functionalities of the web applications. Successful exploitation of this attack will cause Denial of Service.

Description of the Issue

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Black Box testing and example

Testing for Topic X vulnerabilities:
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Result Expected:
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Gray Box testing and example

Testing for Topic X vulnerabilities:
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References

Whitepapers

• DoS Attacks Using SQL Wildcards

Tools
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