David Hansson : Security Vulnerabilities, CVEs, (Information Leak)
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.
Max CVSS
5.0
EPSS Score
0.86%
Published
2007-10-19
Updated
2012-10-31
1 vulnerabilities found