vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-17042: yard -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 28, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-yard
Title
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