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CVE-2023-26153

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-10-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

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.

Affected products

• geokit-rails: before 2.5.0 — fixed in 2.5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: geokit-rails 2.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

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/7ffc5813e57f6f417987043e1039925fd0865c43
• https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/a93dfe49fb9aeae7164e2f8c4041450a04b5482f
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GEOKITRAILS-5920323
• 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/7ffc5813e57f6f417987043e1039925fd0865c43
• https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/a93dfe49fb9aeae7164e2f8c4041450a04b5482f
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GEOKITRAILS-5920323

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