Command Injection Affecting geokit-rails package, versions <2.5.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-GEOKITRAILS-5920323
  • published 5 Oct 2023
  • disclosed 26 Sep 2023
  • credit Calum Hutton

How to fix?

Upgrade geokit-rails to version 2.5.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package 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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.3 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

9.8 critical