CVE-2007-5379: 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…

PriorityP428medium5CVSS 2.0

AVNACLAuNCPINAN

EPSS

3.97%

89.4th percentile

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.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
david_hansson	ruby_on_rails	<= 1.2.3	—
debian	rails	< rails 1.2.5-1 (bookworm)	rails 1.2.5-1 (bookworm)
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 1.2.5-1	1.2.5-1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 1.2.5-1	1.2.5-1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 1.2.5-1	1.2.5-1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 1.2.5-1	1.2.5-1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 1.2.4	1.2.4

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

osv5.0MEDIUM

vendor_debian5.0MEDIUM

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