{
  "modified": "2025-08-09T19:01:27Z",
  "published": "2007-10-19T23:17:00Z",
  "id": "CVE-2007-5379",
  "details": "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.",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/27657"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/28136"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238"
    },
    {
      "type": "ARTICLE",
      "url": "http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26096"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://osvdb.org/40717"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html"
    }
  ]
}