{
"id": "GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2007-5379"
],
"details": "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.",
"summary": "Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails",
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.2.4"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "rails",
"ecosystem": "RubyGems"
}
}
],
"modified": "2025-05-01T18:12:56Z",
"severity": [],
"published": "2017-10-24T18:33:38Z",
"references": [
{
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5379",
"type": "ADVISORY"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/rails/rails",
"type": "PACKAGE"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2007-5379.yml",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090602000500/http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238",
"type": "WEB"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-200"
],
"severity": "MODERATE",
"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": "2007-10-19T23:17:00Z",
"github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:34:46Z"
}
}