Security Advisory

CVE-2007-5379

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-10-19 23:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 15:31:59

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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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