CVE-2007-5379

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-5379
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-10-19 23:17:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionRails 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-200 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application David Hansson Ruby On Rails All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-352A -- Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
Gentoo Bug 195315 - dev-ruby/rails <1.2.5 Multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2007-{3227,5379,5380}) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
Ruby on Rails Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
osvdb.org/40717 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
APPLE-SA-2007-12-17 Security Update 2007-009 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
About Security Update 2007-009 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 docs.info.apple.com
#8453 (Security hole: Hash.from_xml reads arbitary files on disk) - Rails Trac - Trac af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 dev.rubyonrails.org
Gentoo update for rails - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Riding Rails: Rails 1.2.4: Maintenance release af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 weblog.rubyonrails.org
Apple Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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