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Unfortunately, this code example permits a SQL injection attack because the SQL statement sqlString accepts unsanitized input arguments. The attack scenario outlined previously would work as describedby incorporating the unsanitized input argument username into the SQL command, allowing an attacker to inject validuser' OR '1'='1. The password argument cannot be used to attack this program because it is passed to the hashPassword() function which also sanitizes the input.
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import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
class Login {
public Connection getConnection() throws SQLException {
DriverManager.registerDriver(new
com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver());
String dbConnection =
PropertyManager.getProperty("db.connection");
// Can hold some value like
// "jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://<HOST>:1433,<UID>,<PWD>"
return DriverManager.getConnection(dbConnection);
}
String hashPassword(char[] password) {
// Create hash of password
}
public void doPrivilegedAction(String username, char[] password)
throws SQLException {
Connection connection = getConnection();
if (connection == null) {
// Handle error
}
try {
String pwd = hashPassword(password);
String sqlString = "SELECT * FROM db_user WHERE username = '"
+ username +
"' AND password = '" + pwd + "'";
Statement stmt = connection.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(sqlString);
if (!rs.next()) {
throw new SecurityException(
"User name or password incorrect"
);
}
// Authenticated; proceed
} finally {
try {
connection.close();
} catch (SQLException x) {
// Forward to handler
}
}
}
}
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