CVE-2023-26153 — Versions of the package geokit-rails before 2

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

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / geokit	rails — 0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-10-06T05:00:01.453Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-19T18:33:07.893Z

09References

• security.snyk.io — https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GEOKITRAILS-5920323
• gist.github.com — https://gist.github.com/CalumHutton/b7aa1c2e71c8d4386463ac14f686901d
• github.com — https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/blob/master/lib/geokit-rails/ip_geocode_l…
• github.com — https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/7ffc5813e57f6f417987043e1039925fd0…
• github.com — https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/a93dfe49fb9aeae7164e2f8c4041450a04…