CVE-2007-5379
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.
- David Hansson Ruby On Rails
- ≤ 1.2.3
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUM
- EPSS
- 4.0% (89th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-200
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-10-19
CVE-2007-5379 at NVD
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