Aggregates CVE and security vulnerability intelligence across all yardoc-related products, including CVSS, EPSS, publication dates, and vulnerability intelligence data.
Historical issues mainly involve vendor risk path handling and vendor risk cross-site scripting and related problems; some flaws may lead to vendor impact session compromise, affecting vendor surface production workloads scenarios.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.42. | [email protected] | 6.9 | 0.06% | 2026-05-08 | 2026-05-12 |
| 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 0.9.36. | [email protected] | 5.4 | 3.32% | 2024-02-28 | 2025-02-14 |
| CVE-2019-1020001 | yard before 0.9.20 allows path traversal. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 0.25% | 2019-07-29 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2017-17042 | lib/yard/core_ext/file.rb in the server in YARD before 0.9.11 does not block relative paths with an initial ../ sequence, which allows attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read arbitrary files. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 0.41% | 2017-11-28 | 2026-05-13 |