CVE-2007-5379: Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails
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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
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j
- github.com/rails/rails
- github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2007-5379.yml
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5379
- rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release
- web.archive.org/web/20090602000500/http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453
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