{"id":"DEBIAN-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.","modified":"2026-09-01T20:02:48.467524081Z","published":"2007-10-19T23:17:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2007-5379"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5379"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"rails","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/rails?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.2.5-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5379.json"}},{"package":{"name":"rails","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/rails?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.2.5-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5379.json"}},{"package":{"name":"rails","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/rails?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.2.5-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5379.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}