GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6jMedium

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails

Published
October 24, 2017
Last Modified
May 1, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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 products1

  • rubygems/rails:< 1.2.4

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