Oct. 6, 2023, 5:15 a.m. |

National Vulnerability Database web.nvd.nist.gov

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.

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