CVE-2007-5379

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional 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

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

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