CVE-2007-5379
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.040 · 90 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
Rails before 1.2.4, as used for Ruby on Rails, allows remote attackers and ActiveResource servers to determine the existence of arbitrary files and read arbitrary XML files via the Hash.from_xml (Hash#from_xml) method, which uses XmlSimple (XML::Simple) unsafely, as demonstrated by reading passwords from the Pidgin (Gaim) .purple/accounts.xml file.
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affected products (3)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6jModerate severity vulnerability that affects rails2017-10-24ghsa · osvUS
Rails before 1.2.4, as used for Ruby on Rails, allows remote attackers and ActiveResource servers to determine the existence of arbitrary files and read arbitrary XML files via the Hash.from_xml (Hash#from_xml) method, which uses XmlSimple (XML::Simple) unsafely, as demonstrated by reading passwords from the Pidgin (Gaim) .purple/accounts.xml file.
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references (26)
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- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315enisa_euvd
- http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453enisa_euvd
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179enisa_euvd
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://osvdb.org/40717enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27657enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28136enisa_euvd
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xmlenisa_euvd
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