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CVE-2020-5257

HIGH · CVSS 7.7 EPSS 0.90% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-03-13 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.7. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It involves a SQL injection risk.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
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CVE
CVE-2020-5257
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.7
EPSS
0.90%

Original NVD 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.

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