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SCA: security update for administrate (GHSA-2p5p-m353-833w)
high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422161
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- 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.
(CVE-2020-5257)
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Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 422161
Version: Revision 1.3
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 3/28/2025
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.3
Percentile: 53.04
Vendor
Vendor Severity: High
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 4.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-5257
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.1
Temporal Score: 7.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2020
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2020-5257
cwe: CWE-943