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CVE-2007-5379

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 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.

EPSS 4.0% · Fix available

Published
Updated

Stack: system

Affected products and versions

  • n/a

    Versions
    • n/a: Affected

    No fix published

  • rails Debian:12

    Affected ranges
    • ECOSYSTEM: < 1.2.5-1

    Update to 1.2.5-1

  • rails Debian:13

    Affected ranges
    • ECOSYSTEM: < 1.2.5-1

    Update to 1.2.5-1

  • rails Debian:14

    Affected ranges
    • ECOSYSTEM: < 1.2.5-1

    Update to 1.2.5-1

Original sources

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