CVE-2007-5379 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5379
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA27657 Secunia Advisory: SA28136 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml CONFIRM http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html BID 26096 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html

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