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SQL Injection Affecting administrate package, versions <0.13.0

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Privileges Required High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.06% (26th percentile)
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NVD
8.1 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-ADMINISTRATE-560317
  • published 15 Mar 2020
  • disclosed 13 Mar 2020
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 13 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-5257 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-89 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade administrate to version 0.13.0 or higher.

Overview

administrate is a gem that is inspired by projects like Rails Admin and ActiveAdmin, but aims to provide a better user experience for site admins, and to be easier for developers to customize.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to SQL Injection. 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.

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