CVE-2020-5257 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/commit/3ab838b83c5f565fba50e0c6f66fe4517f98eed3 https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/security/advisories/GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

8.1