CVE-2007-5379

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

8.6

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

10.596

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2007-3227,CVE-2007-5379 are fixed in Ruby-rails 1.2.5	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2007-5380,CVE-2007-5379 are fixed in Ruby-rails 1.2.4	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2007-3227,CVE-2007-5379 are fixed in Ruby-rails for Linux 1.2.5	Linux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2007-5380,CVE-2007-5379 are fixed in Ruby-rails for Linux 1.2.4	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234