Information Exposure Affecting rails package, versions <1.2.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.87% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-RAILS-455853
  • published31 Jul 2019
  • disclosed19 Oct 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Oct 2007

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

How to fix?

Upgrade rails to version 1.2.4 or higher.

Overview

rails is an opensource MVC web framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. It allows remote attackers and ActiveResource servers to determine the existence of arbitrary files and read arbitrary XML files via the Hash#from_xml method, which uses XML::Simple unsafely.

CVSS Scores

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