CVE-2007-5379
| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| rails (PTS) | bullseye | 2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u4 | fixed | |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 2:6.1.7.10+dfsg-1~deb12u2 | fixed | |
| trixie (security), trixie | 2:7.2.2.2+dfsg-2~deb13u1 | fixed | |
| forky | 2:7.2.2.2+dfsg-2 | fixed | |
| sid | 2:7.2.3+dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rails | source | etch | (not affected) | |||
| rails | source | (unstable) | 1.2.5-1 |
Notes
[etch] - rails <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)