CVE-2007-5379

Published Oct 19, 2007 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 4.0% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
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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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 3:31 PM
Reserved
Oct 11, 2007, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 19, 2007, 11:17 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:45 PM