GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w
Sort order SQL injection in Administrate
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| RubyGems | administrate | < 0.13.0 | 0.13.0 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
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.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/security/advisories/GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5257
- https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/commit/3ab838b83c5f565fba50e0c6f66fe4517f98eed3
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/administrate/CVE-2020-5257.yml