CVE-2020-5257

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.

• CVE ID
• CVE-2020-5257

• Assigner
• security-advisories@github.com

• Vulnerability Status
• Analyzed

• Published Version
• 2020-03-13T21:15:12

• Last Modified Date
• 2020-03-18T16:05:25

• Version
• 2.0

• Vector String
• AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

• Access Vector
• NETWORK

• Access Compatibility
• LOW

• Authentication
• SINGLE

• Confidentiality Impact
• PARTIAL

• Integrity Impact
• PARTIAL

• Availability Impact
• NONE

• Base Score
• 5.5

• Severity
• MEDIUM

• Exploitability Score
• 8

• Impact Score
• 4.9

• Version
• 3.1

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

• Attack Vector
• NETWORK

• Attack Compatibility
• LOW

• Privileges Required
• LOW

• User Interaction
• NONE

• Scope
• UNCHANGED

• Confidentiality Impact
• HIGH

• Availability Impact
• NONE

• Base Score
• 8.1

• Base Severity
• HIGH

• Exploitability Score
• 2.8

• Impact Score
• 5.2