The vulnerability of the YARD documentation generation and hosting tool, written in the Ruby programming language, arises from an incorrect limitation on the path to the directory. This allows attackers to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the YARD tool for generating and hosting documentation in the Ruby programming language is related to an incorrect limitation on the path to the directory. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to gain unauthorized access to protected information...

SUSE CVE-2026-49342

YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. Prior to version 0.9.44, YARD's static cache lookup reads a request path before the router's path cleanup runs. When a server is configured with a document root, a traversal path such as /../yard-cache-secret.html is joine...

CVE-2026-49342

A flaw was found in YARD, a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. A remote attacker could exploit a path traversal vulnerability in YARD's static cache lookup. This occurs because the request path is read before the router's path cleanup, allowing a specially crafted...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-49342

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. Prior to version 0.9.44, YARD's static cache lookup reads a request path before the...

CVE-2026-49342

YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. Prior to version 0.9.44, YARD's static cache lookup reads a request path before the router's path cleanup runs. When a server is configured with a document root, a traversal path such as /../yard-cache-secret.html is joine...

CVE-2026-49342

YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. Prior to version 0.9.44, YARD's static cache lookup reads a request path before the router's path cleanup runs. When a server is configured with a document root, a traversal path such as /../yard-cache-secret.html is joine...

CVE-2026-49342

YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. Prior to version 0.9.44, YARD's static cache lookup reads a request path before the router's path cleanup runs. When a server is configured with a document root, a traversal path such as /../yard-cache-secret.html is joine...

CVE-2026-49342 YARD static cache reads raw traversal paths before router sanitization

YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. Prior to version 0.9.44, YARD's static cache lookup reads a request path before the router's path cleanup runs. When a server is configured with a document root, a traversal path such as /../yard-cache-secret.html is joine...

PT-2026-51019

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions YARD versions prior to 0.9.44 Description YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. The static cache lookup reads a request path before the router's path cleanup process occurs. When a server is configured with...

CVE-2026-41493

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...

CVE-2026-41493

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...

CVE-2026-41493 yard: Possible arbitrary path traversal and file access via yard server

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...

SUSE CVE-2024-27285

YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The "frames.html" file within the Yard Doc's generated documentation is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting XSS attacks due to inadequate sanitization of user input within the JavaScript segment of the "frames.erb" template file. This vulnerability is fixed in...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-27285

YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The "frames.html" file within the Yard Doc's generated documentation is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting XSS attacks due to inadequate sanitization of user input within the JavaScript segment of the "frames.erb" template file. This vulnerability is fixed in...

YARD Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. The tool is capable of generating documentation in a variety of formats. A security vulnerability in the lib/yard/coreext/file.rb file on servers in versions of YARD prior to 0.9.11 stems from the program's failure to...