Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails
Published: October 24, 2017
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2007-5379 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j
- OSVDB: OSVDB-40717
- Vendor Advisory: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release
GEM
FRAMEWORK
SEVERITY
CVSS v2.0: 5.0 (Medium)
PATCHED VERSIONS
>= 1.2.5
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.