Class: Dawn::Kb::CVE_2007_5379

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Includes:
DependencyCheck
Defined in:
lib/dawn/kb/cve_2007_5379.rb

Overview

Automatically created with rake on 2014-01-09

Constant Summary

Constants included from BasicCheck

BasicCheck::ALLOWED_FAMILIES

Instance Attribute Summary

Attributes included from DependencyCheck

#aux_mitigation_gem, #dependencies, #not_affected, #safe_dependencies, #save_major, #save_minor

Attributes included from BasicCheck

#applies, #aux_links, #check_family, #cve, #cvss, #cwe, #debug, #evidences, #fixes_version, #kind, #message, #mitigated, #name, #osvdb, #owasp, #priority, #release_date, #remediation, #ruby_version, #ruby_vulnerable_versions, #severity, #status, #target_version, #title

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods included from DependencyCheck

#vuln?

Methods included from BasicCheck

#applies_to?, #cve_link, #cvss_score, families, #family, #family=, #lint, #mitigated?, #nvd_link, #osvdb_link, #rubysec_advisories_link

Methods included from Utils

#__debug_me_and_return, #debug_me, #debug_me_and_return_false, #debug_me_and_return_true

Constructor Details

#initialize ⇒ CVE_2007_5379

Returns a new instance of 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