CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5257

8.1 HIGH Published 2020-03-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-03-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-89, CWE-943

Description

In Administrate (rubygem) before version 0.13.0, when sorting by attributes on a dashboard, the direction parameter was not validated before being interpolated into the SQL query. This could present a SQL injection if the attacker were able to modify the `direction` parameter and bypass ActiveRecord SQL protections. Whilst this does have a high-impact, to exploit this you need access to the Administrate dashboards, which we would expect to be behind authentication. This is patched in wersion 0.13.0.

Affected configurations

• thoughtbot administrate (< 0.13.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command weakness
  • CWE-943 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic weakness

References