Claude on Question 19, Oct 2

Explain the general classes of SQL injection so I can brief my developers.

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SQL Injection: A Developer Briefing

Root Cause (one sentence)

SQL injection happens when untrusted input is concatenated into a query string so that the database parses attacker data as code rather than treating it as data. Every variant below is a symptom of that single mistake.

Part 1: Classification by Data Channel

This is how an attacker gets information back out. It matters for your developers mostly because it explains why "we don't show errors to users" is not a fix.

In-band (results come back through the normal response)

Error-based — The app leaks database error messages. Attackers coerce the DB into putting data inside an error string.

-- MySQL example payload
' AND extractvalue(1, concat(0x7e, (SELECT @@version))) --

UNION-based — The attacker appends a UNION SELECT to graft rows from other tables onto the legitimate result set. Requires matching column count and compatible types, which attackers enumerate by trial.

' UNION SELECT username, password_hash FROM users --

Inferential / "Blind" (no data in the response, inferred from behavior)

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# SQL Injection: A Developer Briefing
## Root Cause (one sentence)
SQL injection happens when untrusted input is concatenated into a query string so that the database parses attacker data as **code** rather than treating it as **data**. Every variant below is a symptom of that single mistake.
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## Part 1: Classification by Data Channel
This is how an attacker gets information back out. It matters for your developers mostly because it explains why "we don't show errors to users" is not a fix.
### In-band (results come back through the normal response)
**Error-based** — The app leaks database error messages. Attackers coerce the DB into putting data inside an error string.
```sql
-- MySQL example payload
' AND extractvalue(1, concat(0x7e, (SELECT @@version))) --
```
**UNION-based** — The attacker appends a `UNION SELECT` to graft rows from other tables onto the legitimate result set. Requires matching column count and compatible types, which attackers enumerate by trial.
```sql
' UNION SELECT username, password_hash FROM users --
```
### Inferential / "Blind" (no data in the response, inferred from behavior)
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