CVE-2020-5257

HIGH

Administrate < 0.13.0 - SQL Injection via Direction Parameter

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.7
EPSS 0.0090
EPSS Percentile 54.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-943 CWE-89
Status published
Products (2)
rubygems/administrate 0 - 0.13.0RubyGems
thoughtbot/administrate < 0.13.0
Published Mar 13, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026