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.
Published: 2007-10-19
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 10.6% Moderate
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0231 Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails
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David Hansson Ruby On Rails
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:31:59.017Z

Reserved: 2007-10-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-5379

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2007-10-19T23:17:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2007-5379

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