CVE-2020-5257 HIGH

CVE-2020-5257: Sort order SQL injection in Administrate

Vendor Thoughtbot
Product administrate
Weakness CWE-943
Published March 13, 2020
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

7.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 13, 2020 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated