<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200711-17"> <title>Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> Several vulnerabilities were found in Ruby on Rails allowing for file disclosure and theft of user credentials. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">rails</product> <announced>2007-11-14</announced> <revised count="01">2007-11-14</revised> <bug>195315</bug> <bug>182223</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="dev-ruby/rails" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.2.5</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.2.5</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Ruby on Rails is a free web framework used to develop database-driven web applications. </p> </background> <description> <p> 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 "session_id" to be set in the URL (CVE-2007-5380). BCC discovered that the to_json() function does not properly sanitize input before returning it to the user (CVE-2007-3227). </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> Unauthenticated remote attackers could exploit these vulnerabilities to determine the existence of files or to read the contents of arbitrary XML files; conduct session fixation attacks and gain unauthorized access; and to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site by enticing a user to browse a specially crafted URL. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Ruby on Rails users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/rails-1.2.5"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3227">CVE-2007-3227</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5379">CVE-2007-5379</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5380">CVE-2007-5380</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-11-07T08:24:34Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-11-07T20:49:09Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-11-09T19:31:01Z"> rbu </metadata> </glsa>