{"id":"CVE-2023-26153","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2023-26153","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T07:26:03.795Z","title":"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.","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.\r\r**Note:**\r\r An attacker can use this vulnerability to execute commands on the host system.","published":"2023-10-06T05:15:53.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:42:48.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"report@snyk.io","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-78","CWE-502"],"affected":["geokit/geokit-rails"],"epss":{"score":0.03847,"percentile":0.90078,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.85%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://gist.github.com/CalumHutton/b7aa1c2e71c8d4386463ac14f686901d","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/blob/master/lib/geokit-rails/ip_geocode_lookup.rb%23L37","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/7ffc5813e57f6f417987043e1039925fd0865c43","tags":["Patch"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/a93dfe49fb9aeae7164e2f8c4041450a04b5482f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GEOKITRAILS-5920323","tags":["Exploit","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://gist.github.com/CalumHutton/b7aa1c2e71c8d4386463ac14f686901d","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/blob/master/lib/geokit-rails/ip_geocode_lookup.rb%23L37","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/7ffc5813e57f6f417987043e1039925fd0865c43","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/a93dfe49fb9aeae7164e2f8c4041450a04b5482f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GEOKITRAILS-5920323","tags":["Exploit","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26153","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}