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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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References
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508 ↗
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28136 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26096 ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml ↗
- http://osvdb.org/40717 ↗
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315 ↗
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release ↗
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html ↗
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27657 ↗
- http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453 ↗