Signature Detail

HTTP: SQL xp_cmdshell Command Shell Request

This signature detects any xp_cmdshell requests over HTTP. It could also be a false positive. To reduce False Positives, it is strongly recommended that these signatures only be used to inspect traffic from the Internet to your organization's web servers that use SQL backend databases to generate content and not to inspect traffic going from your organization to the Internet.

References

• URL: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa260689(SQL.80).aspx
• URL: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190693.aspx
• URL: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3372131