--- type: Article title: Wisec - The WIse SECurity description: "Stefano Di Paola replaces the bisection search in blind SQL injection with a mapping approach: where an id parameter yields many distinguishable responses, a CASE expression maps each character value onto a known page, cutting requests from L*log2(255) toward L. The dropped comment thread renames it Mappable Blind SQL Injection, corrects 56 to 64, and derives when it wins." resource: "http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=4706611fe9210" tags: [article, webseclist-reference, wisec-it, sqli, database, side-channel, algorithmic-complexity, tooling, owasp-a03-2021, owasp-a04-2021] generated: by: webseclist-refs/1 at: "2026-08-16T23:13:03+00:00" status: stable stale_after: 2027-08-16 sources: - id: original resource: "http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=4706611fe9210" title: Wisec - The WIse SECurity author: Stefano Di Paola also_at: [] authors: - Stefano Di Paola canonical_url: "" cited_by: - "2007.md:36" commit: "" content_sha256: af204a6199c046a2fdba5c667bec4f16cc7875d256414d2ef5765bb352d83b77 depth: full depth_reason: default kind: article language: "" licence: unknown original_url: "http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=4706611fe9210" published: "" publisher: wisec.it publisher_english: "" raw_sha256: fdb2c5af0c654db3f14ed7dc1f05ee3c2d394ad0fa1782bd9cc1fbad70f1b4c3 retrieved_from: "http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=4706611fe9210" retrieved_kind: stored retrieved_utc: "2026-08-16T23:13:03+00:00" slug: wisec-it-wisec-wise-security-3 snapshot: "" title_english: "" translation_file: "" translation_of: "" --- # Wisec - The WIse SECurity **Wisec - The WIse SECurity** - Stefano Di Paola, wisec.it. - Published: date not stated - Original: - Preserved from: http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=4706611fe9210 (stored) on 2026-08-16 - Licence: unknown Rights remain with the original author and publisher. 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When the bisection algorithm is applied the complexity is O(Log2 n) where n is in the case of the extended ASCII character set is 255. So for each character at a given position 'p' the total number of requests will be: **Log2 n = Log2 255 = ~7** So if the lenght of the information to be retrieved is 8, the total number of requests to be sent is *8 * Log2 255 = 56* Let's suppose now, there is the following situation: **http://vi.ctim/page.jsp?id=1** where page.jsp is a script which loads dinamically content by using the SQL query: > qry= "Select content from pages where id="+Request.value("id"); Let's suppose the rest of the application gives no clue about SQL errors or the possibility to use other tricks in order to force the web application to display the informations we want. This is a classical Blind SQL Injection case. But what happens if by changing 'id' values results displaying different pages? The attacker could use the different responses in order to map the results of an injected conditional sql statement. That is. Let's suppose there are more than 255 values for the 'id' parameter > "http:// vi.ctim/page.jsp?id=1" > "http:// vi.ctim/page.jsp?id=2" > ... > "http://vi.ctim/page.jsp?id=255" then let's map every single snippet of unique text content for every request. Then by setting > For (pos = 1; pos idval="(CASE substr(@@version,"+pos+",1) > when char(1) then 1 > when char(2) then 2 > when char(3) then 3 > when char(4) then 4 > when char(4) then 5 > etc > end )" > get response for: > "http://vi.ctim/page.jsp?id=idval" > } the attacker will have to accomplish only **LEN(@@version)** requests, because for every request the application will return the page mapped to the character value. Now, this is the best case. For every character value exists a single id value. There could be a number of id values which is less than 255 (or # printable chars for non binary information). Let's suppose there exist only 4 unique id values corresponding to 4 unique responses. Then the injected query will be (in pseudo code): > res=substr(@@version,pos,1); > > if(res>191 and res<255) > then 1 > else if(res>127 and res<192) > then 2 > else if(res>63 and res<128) > then 3 > else > 4 For each result, the set of values we are analysing will be 1/4 of the previous set. This algorithm has O(Log4 255), which will correspond to **LEN*Log4 255 = LEN*3.9** requests to be sent. The worst case is the On/Off bisection algorithm already described in several papers. I don't have the time to implement it now, but I hope to see some tool with this (maybe) new approach in it:) **[Wisec](http://www.wisec.it)**, Tuesday, October 09, 2007, 00:20 **[Bedirhan Urgun](http://www.webguvenligi.org)**, Tuesday, October 09, 2007, 15:54 **[Wisec](http://www.wisec.it)**, Tuesday, October 09, 2007, 16:27 ** Bedirhan Urgun **, Tuesday, October 09, 2007, 19:29 **[Wisec](http://www.wisec.it)**, Tuesday, October 09, 2007, 19:38 **[Wisec](http://www.wisec.it)**, Tuesday, October 09, 2007, 19:43 ** Bedirhan Urgun **, Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 07:50 ** Bernardo Damele **, Thursday, October 11, 2007, 15:43 **Comments are disabled** [Admin login](http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?login) | This weblog is from [www.mylittlehomepage.net](http://www.mylittlehomepage.net/) # Wisec is brought to you by... Wisec is written and mantained by Stefano Di Paola. Wisec uses open standards, including XHTML, CSS2, and XML-RPC. | |