CVE-2023-26153

critical

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.

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GEOKITRAILS-5920323

https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/a93dfe49fb9aeae7164e2f8c4041450a04b5482f

https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/7ffc5813e57f6f417987043e1039925fd0865c43

https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/blob/master/lib/geokit-rails/ip_geocode_lookup.rb%23L37

https://gist.github.com/CalumHutton/b7aa1c2e71c8d4386463ac14f686901d

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-10-06

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.06606