Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Summary and exercises

Throughout this chapter, we saw how we could test MySQL databases. To practice your skills, you can perform the following further exercises at your own pace:

• Try testing MSSQL and PostgreSQL databases and make a note of the modules.
• Try to run system commands for MSSQL.
• Resolve error 13 on MySQL for writing files onto the server.
• The database testing covered in this chapter was performed on Metasploitable 2. Try setting up the same environment locally and repeat the exercise.

In the last five chapters, we covered a variety of modules, exploits, and services, which took a good amount of time. Let's look at how we can speed up the process of testing with Metasploit in Chapter 6, Fast-Paced Exploitation with Metasploit ...