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.
History

Tue, 26 May 2026 12:15:00 +0000

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Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Moderate


Tue, 12 May 2026 14:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Yardoc
Yardoc yard
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:yardoc:yard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Yardoc
Yardoc yard
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}


Sun, 10 May 2026 21:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Lsegal
Lsegal yard
Vendors & Products Lsegal
Lsegal yard

Fri, 08 May 2026 22:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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
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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-08T14:17:53.326Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-05-08T14:16:33.550

Modified: 2026-05-12T14:38:35.307

Link: CVE-2026-41493

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-05-08T13:13:49Z

Links: CVE-2026-41493 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-10T21:25:22Z