Information disclosure in David Hansson Ruby On Rails
CVE-2007-5379
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.
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
EPSS: 0.040 (89.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- David_hansson Ruby_on_rails
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE)