CVE-2026-41493 | THREATINT

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-20 | Published 2026-05-08 | Updated 2026-05-08 | Assigner GitHub_M

MEDIUM: 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Product status

< 0.9.42

affected

References

github.com/...l/yard/security/advisories/GHSA-3jfp-46x4-xgfj

github.com/lsegal/yard/releases/tag/v0.9.42

cve.org (CVE-2026-41493)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-41493)

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