Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails (GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j)
Published: 2017-10-24T18:33:38Z
Aliases: CVE-2007-5379
Severity: MODERATE · CWE: CWE-200

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 packages:
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: rails
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 0
fixed: 1.2.5
database_specific: last_known_affected_version_range: < 1.2.4