GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j

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    GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j

    Published: 24 Oct 2017Last Modified: 1 May 2025
    Aliases:
    CVE-2007-5379

    Summary: Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5379, https://github.com/rails/rails, https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2007-5379.yml, https://rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release, https://web.archive.org/web/20090602000500/http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315, http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: rails

    Purl: pkg:gem/rails

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.2.4

    Affected versions

    0.10.0
    0.10.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High