ADVISORIES

• CVE-2023-26153 (NVD)
• GHSA-7xvc-v44j-46fh

GEM

geokit-rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 8.3 (High)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 2.5.0

DESCRIPTION

Versions of the package geokit-rails before 2.5.0 are vulnerable to Command Injection due to unsafe deserialisation of YAML within the 'geo_location' cookie. This issue can be exploited remotely via a malicious cookie value.

Note:

An attacker can use this vulnerability to execute commands on the host system.

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26153
• https://gist.github.com/CalumHutton/b7aa1c2e71c8d4386463ac14f686901d
• https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/7ffc5813e57f6f417987043e1039925fd0865c43
• https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/a93dfe49fb9aeae7164e2f8c4041450a04b5482f
• https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/blob/master/lib/geokit-rails/ip_geocode_lookup.rb#L37
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GEOKITRAILS-5920323
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7xvc-v44j-46fh