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SCA: security update for rails (GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421810

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2007-5379)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fjfg-q662-gm6j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421810

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-5379

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5379

BID: 26096

cwe: CWE-200