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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-10-19T23:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2007-5379

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:37:45.760

Link: CVE-2007-5379

cve-icon Redhat

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