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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | geokit-rails | < 2.5.0 | 2.5.0 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RubyGems | geokit-rails | < 2.5.0 | 2.5.0 | GHSA-7xvc-v44j-46fh |
References
- 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