class Dawn::Kb::CVE_2007_5379

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# File lib/dawn/kb/cve_2007_5379.rb, line 7
                      def initialize
message = "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."
super({
  :name=>"CVE-2007-5379",
  :cvss=>"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N",
  :release_date => Date.new(2007, 10, 19),
  :cwe=>"200",
  :owasp=>"A9", 
  :applies=>["rails"],
  :kind=>Dawn::KnowledgeBase::DEPENDENCY_CHECK,
  :message=>message,
  :mitigation=>"Please upgrade rails version at least to 1.2.4 or higher. As a general rule, using the latest stable rails version is recommended.",
  :aux_links=>["http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release"]
})

self.safe_dependencies = [{:name=>"rails", :version=>['1.2.4']}]

                      end