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Directory Traversal Affecting yard package, versions <0.9.20

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.26% (66th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-YARD-455636
  • published 29 Jul 2019
  • disclosed 29 Jul 2019
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 29 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-1020001 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-23 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade yard to version 0.9.20 or higher.

Overview

yard is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. When using yard server to serve documentation the package would allow unsanitized HTTP requests to access arbitrary files on the machine of a yard server host under certain conditions.

For users who cannot upgrade, it is possible to perform path sanitization of HTTP requests at your webserver level.

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