Information Exposure Affecting rails package, versions <1.2.5-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.82% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-RAILS-5694534
  • published19 Oct 2007
  • disclosed19 Oct 2007

Introduced: 19 Oct 2007

CVE-2007-5379  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 rails to version 1.2.5-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rails package and not the rails package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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