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Information Exposure Affecting rails package, versions <1.2.4

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.86% (83rd percentile)
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5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-RAILS-455853
  • published 31 Jul 2019
  • disclosed 19 Oct 2007
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 19 Oct 2007

CVE-2007-5379 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-200 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade rails to version 1.2.4 or higher.

Overview

rails is an opensource MVC web framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. It allows remote attackers and ActiveResource servers to determine the existence of arbitrary files and read arbitrary XML files via the Hash#from_xml method, which uses XML::Simple unsafely.