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, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, 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)	jessie, jessie (lts)	2:4.1.8-1+deb8u9	fixed
	stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch	2:4.2.7.1-1+deb9u5	fixed
	buster (security), buster, buster (lts)	2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1+deb10u5	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u2	fixed
	bookworm	2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-2~deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-4	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

[etch] - rails <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)