{"cve":"CVE-2007-5379","nvd":{"published":"2007-10-19T23:17:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:45:59.863","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-200"],"references":["http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315","http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453","http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179","http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html","http://osvdb.org/40717"],"products":["david_hansson:ruby_on_rails"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:48:28.501292361+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2007-5379","score":0.03969,"percentile":0.90464,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j","summary":"Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails","modified":"2025-05-01T18:49:06.777708Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","name":"rails","purl":"pkg:gem/rails","ranges":["<1.2.4"],"fixed":["1.2.4"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}