{"id":"GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j","summary":"Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails","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.","aliases":["CVE-2007-5379"],"modified":"2025-05-01T18:32:06.399689Z","published":"2017-10-24T18:33:38Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed_at":"2020-06-16T21:34:46Z","nvd_published_at":"2007-10-19T23:17:00Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-200"],"severity":"MODERATE","github_reviewed":true},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5379"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/rails/rails"},{"type":"WEB","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"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"rails","ecosystem":"RubyGems","purl":"pkg:gem/rails"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.2.4"}]}],"versions":["0.10.0","0.10.1","0.11.0","0.11.1","0.12.0","0.12.1","0.13.0","0.13.1","0.14.1","0.14.2","0.14.3","0.14.4","0.8.0","0.8.5","0.9.0","0.9.1","0.9.2","0.9.3","0.9.4","0.9.4.1","0.9.5","1.0.0","1.1.0","1.1.1","1.1.2","1.1.3","1.1.4","1.1.5","1.1.6","1.2.0","1.2.1","1.2.2","1.2.3"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2017/10/GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j/GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}