PRET VS SQLMap

So i decided to tinker a bit before spending a shitload of money into toners or new printers, i'm using this tool to try access and issuing commands to the printer, the connection gets succesfully enstablished. After that i can issue commands in three different languages: PS and PJL doesn't seem to do anything, with PCL at least i see a Device: Unknown printer but all the commands i issue seem to simply not be taken in consideration from the printer, in any of the 3 languages, giving a Command execution failed (timed out) error.

my friend that owns a coffee shop asked me to poke around on his network to look for vulnerabilities in exchange for some free coffees and i saw that they had 9100 open, wasn't familiar with it so played around and found out about PRET which gave me access to his HP printer, with transversal you can gain access to the file system etc and from what i read you can open a root shell on another port, would the scope be limited to the printer, or can the printer be used as a vector to gain access to other systems connecting to said printer?

Preferable you don't want it accessible from the internet at all. Using stuff like the Printer Exploitation Toolkit (PRET), people can get up to some nasty stuff on a public accessible (insecure) printer : https://github.com/RUB-NDS/PRET

You'll love PRET then. It can also brick printers and do all kinds of other fun stuff with them.

Printer exploit framework: https://github.com/RUB-NDS/PRET

Printer Exploitation Toolkit (PRET) - Tool for printer security testing capable of IP and USB connectivity, fuzzing, and exploitation of PostScript, PJL, and PCL printer language features.

sqlmap

A few weeks ago, I took a short cyber security course on Udemy. SQL injection was a section of the course. I knew about the concept though, I hadn't tried it. I was planning to make a Restful API server and tried SQL injection using a tool sqlmap, which was introduced in the course. While I could have used existing server code, I decided to build one from scratch. It's been a while since I worked on a Restful API server, and I wanted to refresh my knowledge for learning purposes.

I recommend looking for an alternative or if you must do it this way test it with https://sqlmap.org to make sure you are not vulnerable to the lowest effort attacks.

The DAST checks can be automated up to a certain point, where the code should be able to withstand certain scans and attacks. For eg. SQL Injections can be checked with sqlmap which tests with each and every type of sql injection payload and reports it back to the user.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap.git sqlmap-dev

Sounds good, why not try making a simple vulnerability scanner for APIs too? Maybe something similar to SQLMap

Its not that much of a tool than wrappers of few awesome tools that most of you probably know and use today - sqlmap, bbot and nikto.

I'm excited to share with you my latest contributions to the GitHub community: a collection of free GitHub Actions designed to streamline and enhance security practices utilizing DAST and OSINT tooling that is widely used - sqlmap, bbot and nikto. There were no GH Actions that I could find, so I made them for my use case, but figured everyone can benefit from those awesome tools.

SQLMap