Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-26153 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Geokit Geokit-Rails
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 8 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://gist.github.com/CalumHutton/b7aa1c2e71c8d4386463ac14f686901d
- https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/blob/master/lib/geokit-rails/ip_geocode_lookup.rb%23L37
- https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/a93dfe49fb9aeae7164e2f8c4041450a04b5482f
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GEOKITRAILS-5920323
- https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/7ffc5813e57f6f417987043e1039925fd0865c43