sqlmap 0.9 Released – SQL Injection Tool

After a year of hardcore development, sqlmap 0.9 is out!

Introduction:
sqlmap is an open source penetrationtesting tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a kick-ass detection engine, many niche features for the ultimatepenetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections.

New Features:

• Rewritten SQL injection detection engine
• Support to directly connect to the database without passing via a SQL injection, -d switch
• Added full support for both time-based blind SQL injection and error-based SQL injection techniques
• Implemented support for SQLite 2 and 3
• Implemented support for Firebird
• Implemented support for Microsoft Access, Sybase and SAP MaxDB
• Added support to tamper injection data with –tamper switch
• Added automatic recognition of password hashes format and support to crack them with a dictionary-based attack
• Added support to fetch unicode data
• Added support to use persistent HTTP(s) connection for speed improvement, –keep-alive switch
• Implemented several optimization switches to speed up the exploitation of SQL injections
• Support to parse and test forms on target url, –forms switch
• Added switches to brute-force tables names and columns names with a dictionary attack, –common-tables and –common-columns.