lsegal/yard · Security

Arbitrary file read vulnerability in yard server

GHSA ID
GHSA-gj4p-3wh3-2rmf
CVE ID
CVE-2017-17042
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v3
7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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.

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