CVE detail

CVE-2020-5257 — CVE-2020-5257

Published 2020-03-13 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor thoughtbot · Product administrate · Source nvd
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
7.7
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0090
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
56.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

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.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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