[DRE-maint] Bug#1136076: yard: CVE-2026-41493

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: yard
Version: 0.9.39-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for yard.

CVE-2026-41493[0]:
| 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.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-41493
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-41493
[1] https://github.com/lsegal/yard/security/advisories/GHSA-3jfp-46x4-xgfj

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore