Advisory details:
ruby_advisory_db / gems/rails/CVE-2007-5379
| Advisory ID | ruby_advisory_db/gems/rails/CVE-2007-5379 |
| Aliases |
CVE-2007-5379
GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j OSV-40717 |
| 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 |
| There are no known CWE. |
| System | Score | Found at |
|---|---|---|
| cvssv2 | 5.0 |
| Reference id | Reference type | URL |
|---|---|---|
| http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release |
No EPSS data available for this advisory.
| Patch URL | |
|---|---|
| There are no known patches. | |
There are no SSVC decisions available.