CVE-2007-5379: David Hansson Ruby On Rails

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• David Hansson Ruby On Rails: up to and including 1.2.3

Published 2007-10-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.