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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTJwNXAtbTM1My04MzN3

Sort order SQL injection in Administrate

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: about 4 years ago
Updated: 12 months ago

CVSS Score: 7.7
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w, CVE-2020-5257
References:

• https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/security/advisories/GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w
• https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/commit/3ab838b83c5f565fba50e0c6f66fe4517f98eed3
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5257
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w
• https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/administrate/CVE-2020-5257.yml

Repository: https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate
Blast Radius: 23.8

Affected Packages