Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-5379 - Information Exposure vulnerability in David Hansson Ruby ON Rails

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
david-hansson
CWE-200
nessus
NVD
Published: 2007-10-19
Updated: 2012-10-31

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
David_Hansson
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Subverting Environment Variable Values
    The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
  • Footprinting
    An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
  • Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible)
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
  • Browser Fingerprinting
    An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
  • Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.

Nessus

  • NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
    NASL idMACOSX_SECUPD2007-009.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.4 that does not have Security Update 2007-009 applied. This update contains several security fixes for a large number of programs.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id29723
    published2007-12-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/29723
    titleMac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-009)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(29723);
  script_version("1.27");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/14  1:59:35");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-0024", "CVE-2007-1218", "CVE-2007-1659", "CVE-2007-1660", "CVE-2007-1661",
                "CVE-2007-1662", "CVE-2007-3798", "CVE-2007-3876", "CVE-2007-4131", "CVE-2007-4351",
                "CVE-2007-4572", "CVE-2007-4708", "CVE-2007-4709", "CVE-2007-4710", "CVE-2007-4766",
                "CVE-2007-4767", "CVE-2007-4768", "CVE-2007-4965", "CVE-2007-5116", "CVE-2007-5379",
                "CVE-2007-5380", "CVE-2007-5398", "CVE-2007-5476", "CVE-2007-5770", "CVE-2007-5847",
                "CVE-2007-5848", "CVE-2007-5849", "CVE-2007-5850", "CVE-2007-5851", "CVE-2007-5853",
                "CVE-2007-5854", "CVE-2007-5855", "CVE-2007-5856", "CVE-2007-5857", "CVE-2007-5858",
                "CVE-2007-5859", "CVE-2007-5860", "CVE-2007-5861", "CVE-2007-5863", "CVE-2007-6077",
                "CVE-2007-6165");
  script_bugtraq_id(17106, 22772, 24965, 25417, 25696, 26096, 26268, 26274, 26346,
                    26350, 26421, 26454, 26455, 26510, 26598, 26908, 26910, 26926);

  script_name(english:"Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-009)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the presence of Security Update 2007-009");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various
security issues.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.4 that does
not have Security Update 2007-009 applied. 

This update contains several security fixes for a large number of
programs.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/13649");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Install Security Update 2007-009.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Mail.app Image Attachment Command Execution');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
  script_cwe_id(16, 20, 22, 79, 119, 134, 189, 200, 264, 287, 310, 362, 399);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/03/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/10/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/12/18");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:apple:mac_os_x");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"MacOS X Local Security Checks");
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/MacOSX/packages", "Host/uname");
  exit(0);
}


uname = get_kb_item("Host/uname");
if ( ! uname ) exit(0);
if ( egrep(pattern:"Darwin.* (8\.[0-9]\.|8\.1[01]\.)", string:uname) )
{
  packages = get_kb_item("Host/MacOSX/packages");
  if ( ! packages ) exit(0);
  if (!egrep(pattern:"^SecUpd(Srvr)?(2007-009|200[89]-|20[1-9][0-9]-)", string:packages))
    security_hole(0);
}
else if ( egrep(pattern:"Darwin.* (9\.[01]\.)", string:uname) )
{
 packages = get_kb_item("Host/MacOSX/packages/boms");
 if ( ! packages ) exit(0);
 if ( !egrep(pattern:"^com\.apple\.pkg\.update\.security\.2007\.009\.bom", string:packages) )
	security_hole(0);
}
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_RUBYGEM-ACTIVESUPPORT-4565.NASL
    descriptionA cross site scripting (XSS) bug allowed attackers to execute JavaScript code in the context of other websites (CVE-2007-3227). Specially crafted requests could crash an application when processing XML data (CVE-2007-5379).
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id28206
    published2007-11-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/28206
    titleopenSUSE 10 Security Update : rubygem-activesupport (rubygem-activesupport-4565)
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-200711-17.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200711-17 (Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities) candlerb found that ActiveResource, when processing responses using the Hash.from_xml() function, does not properly sanitize filenames (CVE-2007-5380). The session management functionality allowed the
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id28217
    published2007-11-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/28217
    titleGLSA-200711-17 : Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities

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