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CVE-2007-5379
Rails before 1.2.4, as used for Ruby on Rails, allows remote attackers and ActiveResource servers to determine the existence of arbitrary…
Medium5.0EPSS 4.0%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.0% · top 9.5% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsrailsGHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j (opens in a new tab)
References (13)
- ADV-2007-4238 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2007-3508 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- TA07-352A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 28136 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 26096 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-200711-17 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 40717 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2007-12-17 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 27657 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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