🛡️ CVE-2026-41493 on Debian — yard

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

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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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-41493 as tracked by Debian, for the package yard. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-41493 is recorded against 1 package.

yard

Timeline and source

Published on 8 May 2026 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2026-41493 on other distributions

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Base record Ubuntu

Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2026-05-08

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-08-04

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
yard	—	—

References

ADVISORY https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-41493

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