CVE-2020-5257

low-risk
Published 2020-03-13

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.19% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 7.7/10 High
NETWORK / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (1)

Administrate

Affected Vendors

29
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low-risk
Severity 23/34 · High
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal