CVE-2007-5379

Published Oct 19, 2007

Last updated 12 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-200

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:david_hansson:ruby_on_rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "DD060C44-C630-45BD-BFAD-74C8BFFBBD4E",
            "versionEndIncluding": "1.2.3"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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