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  "id": "CVE-2007-5379",
  "sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org",
  "published": "2007-10-19T23:17:00.000",
  "lastModified": "2024-11-21T00:37:45.760",
  "vulnStatus": "Modified",
  "cveTags": [],
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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "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."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "El Rails anterior al 1.2.4, como el utilizado en el \"Ruby on Rails\", permite a atacantes remotos y a los servidores ActiveResource determinar la existencia de ficheros de su elecci\u00f3n y leer ficheros XML de su elecci\u00f3n a trav\u00e9s del m\u00e9todo Hash.from_xml (Hash#from_xml), el cual utiliza XmlSimple (XML::Simple) en modo no seguro, como lo demostrado leyendo las contrase\u00f1as del fichero Pidgin (Gaim) .purple/accounts.xml."
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          "baseScore": 5.0,
          "accessVector": "NETWORK",
          "accessComplexity": "LOW",
          "authentication": "NONE",
          "confidentialityImpact": "PARTIAL",
          "integrityImpact": "NONE",
          "availabilityImpact": "NONE"
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        "exploitabilityScore": 10.0,
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