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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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
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

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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cve-icon NVD

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