CVE-2007-5379

EPSS 4.0%

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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Referencias

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315 http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html http://osvdb.org/40717 http://secunia.com/advisories/27657 http://secunia.com/advisories/28136 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26096 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508