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Happy to be connected here, but couldn't all of these be mitigated by limiting the login to the DB to only be granted SELECT permission to the table in question? Then any other statement would fail?

RemarkLima
– RemarkLima

2015-04-27 18:30:48 +00:00
Commented Apr 27, 2015 at 18:30
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@RemarkLima, not necessarily - that's just the first bullet above. Depending upon the database variant, a user with SELECT access to one table may still be able to access system tables, system variables, functions, stored procedures... consider something like ' UNION ALL SELECT LOAD_FILE('/etc/passwd') -- (from SQL Injection Wiki)

gowenfawr
– gowenfawr

2015-04-27 18:46:13 +00:00
Commented Apr 27, 2015 at 18:46

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