Vulnerability in administrate (CVE-2020-5257)
Summary
Vulnerability in administrate (CVE-2020-5257). Confidential information can be exposed externally. Exploitable via direction. Mitigation: upgrade to 0.13.0 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-5257 has been found in administrate.
Attackers can target a specific entry point like direction over the network to misuse the product.
Confidential information can be exposed externally.
What to do: upgrade administrate to 0.13.0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "administrate CVE-2020-5257" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2020-5257 (administrate) — CWE-943
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Attack surface: direction
Patched: 0.13.0 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-943) exists in administrate. Attackers reach the vulnerable code path via direction.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of administrate. Attack surface: direction.
Severity: ?. Confidential information can be exposed externally.
Update to 0.13.0.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'administrate' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'administrate' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
administrateを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade administrate to 0.13.0ステージング環境で 0.13.0 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory github.com
- patch github.com
- web github.com