CVE-2020-5257

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
thoughtbotadministrate< 0.13.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-943: CWE-943: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

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