CVE-2007-5379: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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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.
References
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315
- dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453
- docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
- osvdb.org/40717
- secunia.com/advisories/27657
- secunia.com/advisories/28136
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml
- weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/26096
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5379
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