CVE-2007-5379

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Rails before 1.2.4, as used for Ruby on Rails, allows remote attackers and ActiveResource servers to determine the exist

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.10596

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EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
EPSS percentile: top 7% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood

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Weakness Classification

CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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Affected Products & Versions

david hansson ruby on rails<= 1.2.3

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Affected Packages

Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.

RubyGems rails MODERATE fixed in 1.2.4

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productmediumRuby on Rails Framework Exceptions

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Scoring & Timeline

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Published to NVD19 Oct 2007 · 11:17 PM

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html

http://osvdb.org/40717

http://secunia.com/advisories/27657

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http://secunia.com/advisories/28136

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26096Patch

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.htmlUS Government Resource

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238

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