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