CVE-2007-5379
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 19, 2007
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 11, 2007
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- ADV-2007-4238vdb-entry
- ADV-2007-3508vdb-entry
- TA07-352Athird-party-advisory
- 28136third-party-advisory
- 26096vdb-entry
- GLSA-200711-17vendor-advisory
- 40717vdb-entry
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release
- APPLE-SA-2007-12-17vendor-advisory
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
- 27657third-party-advisory
- http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453
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