cve-2007-5379
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-10-19 23:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:31
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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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