Security
Security
Several vulnerabilities were found in Ruby on Rails allowing for file disclosure and theft of user credentials.
| Package | dev-ruby/rails on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 1.2.5 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 1.2.5 |
Ruby on Rails is a free web framework used to develop database-driven web applications.
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).
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.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Ruby on Rails users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/rails-1.2.5"