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Advisory details: github_osv / GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j
Advisory ID github_osv/GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j
Aliases CVE-2007-5379
Summary Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
System Score Found at
generic_textual MODERATE
Reference id Reference type URL
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
https://github.com/rails/rails
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://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
CVE-2007-5379 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5379
CVE-2007-5379.YML https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2007-5379.yml
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