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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26153
• geokit/geokit-rails@7ffc581
• geokit/geokit-rails@a93dfe4
• https://gist.github.com/CalumHutton/b7aa1c2e71c8d4386463ac14f686901d
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GEOKITRAILS-5920323
• https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/blob/master/lib/geokit-rails/ip_geocode_lookup.rb#L37
• GHSA-7xvc-v44j-46fh
• https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/geokit-rails/CVE-2023-26153.yml
• https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/blob/master/lib/geokit-rails/ip_geocode_lookup.rb%23L37