GHSA-864j-6qpp-cmrr

SQL Injection in Geocoder

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2020-7981

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	geocoder	< 1.6.1	1.6.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

sql.rb in Geocoder before 1.6.1 allows Boolean-based SQL injection when `within_bounding_box` is used in conjunction with untrusted `sw_lat`, `sw_lng`, `ne_lat`, or `ne_lng` data.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7981 advisory
https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder/commit/dcdc3d8675411edce3965941a2ca7c441ca48613 web
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7981 web
https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder package
https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#161-2020-jan-23 web
https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder/compare/v1.6.0...v1.6.1 web
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/geocoder/CVE-2020-7981.yml web