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.

Affected Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-200

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315
• http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
• http://osvdb.org/40717
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27657