{"id":"CVE-2020-5257","aliases":["GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-5257","summary":"Sort order SQL injection in Administrate","details":"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.","published":"2020-03-13T21:15:12.190Z","modified":"2026-07-09T14:06:16.405668Z","cvss":{"score":8.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"},"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","name":"administrate","fixedVersion":"0.13.0"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/commit/3ab838b83c5f565fba50e0c6f66fe4517f98eed3","label":"thoughtbot/administrate@3ab838b"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/security/advisories/GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/commit/3ab838b83c5f565fba50e0c6f66fe4517f98eed3"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-07-09T14:06:16.405668Z"}}