CVSS 3.1
8.1 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NCVE-2020-5257
High (8.1) in thoughtbot administrate. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in administrate 0.13.0.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 59% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-89, CWE-943
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- thoughtbot:administrate
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w | RubyGems | administrate | <0.13.0 | 0.13.0 |
References
- https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/commit/3ab838b83c5f565fba50e0c6f66fe4517f98eed3
- https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/security/advisories/GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w
- https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/commit/3ab838b83c5f565fba50e0c6f66fe4517f98eed3
- https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/security/advisories/GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w