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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We submitted our new system to a pen-test and apparently is pretty easy to be infected by SQL-injection, anyone came across this before?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We run the feature layer through a cgi-bin request, see the script below<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#! /bin/sh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">MAPSERV="/var/…/cgi-bin/mapserv"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">MAPFILE="/var/…/twfeat.map"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">if [ "${REQUEST_METHOD}" = "GET" ]; then<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> if [ -z "${QUERY_STRING}" ]; then<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> QUERY_STRING="map=${MAPFILE}"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> else<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> QUERY_STRING="map=${MAPFILE}&${QUERY_STRING}"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> fi<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> exec ${MAPSERV}<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">else<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> echo "Sorry, I only understand GET requests."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">fi<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">exit 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">how can you sanitize or implement security layers?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Sebastiano Laini<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Web Developer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Buchanan Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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