Vulnerability CVE-2007-5379
Published: 2007-10-19   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
David hansson -> Ruby on rails 

 References:
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26096
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/28136
http://secunia.com/advisories/27657
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315
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