YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. Prior to version 0.9.42, a path traversal vulnerability was discovered in YARD when using yard server to serve documentation. This bug would allow unsanitized HTTP requests to access arbitrary files on the machine of a yard server host under certain conditions. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.42.
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Fri, 08 May 2026 13:30:00 +0000
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| Description | YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. Prior to version 0.9.42, a path traversal vulnerability was discovered in YARD when using yard server to serve documentation. This bug would allow unsanitized HTTP requests to access arbitrary files on the machine of a yard server host under certain conditions. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.42. | |
| Title | yard: Possible arbitrary path traversal and file access via yard server | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-08T21:27:41.408Z
Reserved: 2026-04-20T16:14:19.008Z
Link: CVE-2026-41493
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-05-08T14:16:33.550
Modified: 2026-05-08T16:02:14.343
Link: CVE-2026-41493
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Updated: 2026-05-08T15:45:08Z