ghsa-fjfg-q662-gm6j
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Published
2017-10-24 18:33
Modified
2025-05-01 18:12
Summary
Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails
Details

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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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "RubyGems",
        "name": "rails"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.2.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2007-5379"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-200"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:34:46Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2007-10-19T23:17:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j",
  "modified": "2025-05-01T18:12:56Z",
  "published": "2017-10-24T18:33:38Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5379"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/rails/rails"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2007-5379.yml"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090602000500/http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [],
  "summary": "Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails"
}


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