UNKNOWN RubyGems
Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails
GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j · CVE-2007-5379
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Description
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
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5379
- PACKAGE https://github.com/rails/rails
- WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2007-5379.yml
- WEB https://rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release
- WEB https://web.archive.org/web/20090602000500/http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453
- WEB http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315
- WEB http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
- WEB http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
- WEB http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml
- WEB http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html
- WEB http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508
- WEB http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238
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