geokit-rails Command Injection vulnerability
Date: 2023-10
Affected: rubygems/geokit-rails
Attack vector: command-injection
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Critical
CVE: CVE-2023-26153
CWE: CWE-502
CWE-77
CVSS: 9.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

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.


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