CVE-2007-5379 | BDVDB-2026-27183 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28136
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26096
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml
- http://osvdb.org/40717
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27657
- http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.