CVE-2020-5257 Sort order SQL injection in Administrate

2020-03-1321:05:15

CWE-943

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

7.7 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

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

8.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

27.2%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "administrate",
    "vendor": "thoughtbot",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "< 0.13.0"
      }
    ]
  }
]