YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The "frames.html" file within the Yard Doc's generated documentation is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks due to inadequate sanitization of user input within the JavaScript segment of the "frames.erb" template file. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.36.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The "frames.html" file within the Yard Doc's generated documentation is
    vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks due to inadequate sanitization of user input within the
    JavaScript segment of the "frames.erb" template file. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.36.
    (CVE-2024-27285)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6731-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that 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. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-17042)

    It was discovered that yard before 0.9.20 is affected by a path traversal vulnerability, allowing HTTP     requests to access arbitrary files under certain conditions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2019-1020001)

    Aviv Keller discovered that the frames.html file within the Yard Doc's generated documentation is     vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks due to inadequate sanitization of user input within the     JavaScript segment of the frames.erb template file. (CVE-2024-27285)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-3744975c4b advisory.

    A security flaw was found on rubygem-yard that documents generated by yard may be vulnerable to XSS     attack. This issue is now assigned as CVE-2024-27285 . This new rpm is supposed to fix this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3753 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3753-1                debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/                          Adrian Bunk     March 06, 2024                                https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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    Package        : yard     Version        : 0.9.16-1+deb10u1     CVE ID         : CVE-2019-1020001 CVE-2024-27285     Debian Bug     : 945369 1065118

    Two vulnerabilities were fixed in YARD, a documentation tool for the     Ruby programming laguage.

    CVE-2019-1020001

        Arbitrary path traversal and file access in yard server

    CVE-2024-27285

        Cross-Site Scripting in generated frames.html

    For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version     0.9.16-1+deb10u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your yard packages.

    For the detailed security status of yard please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/yard

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5635 advisory.

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5635-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff     March 04, 2024                        https://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : yard     CVE ID         : CVE-2024-27285

    Aviv Keller discovered that the frames.html file generated by YARD, a     documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language, was     vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

    For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed     in version 0.9.24-1+deb11u1.

    For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in     version 0.9.28-2+deb12u2.

    We recommend that you upgrade your yard packages.

    For the detailed security status of yard please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/yard

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
412765	SCA: security update for yard (GHSA-8mq4-9jjh-9xrc)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
412765	SCA: security update for yard (GHSA-8mq4-9jjh-9xrc)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
193337	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : YARD vulnerabilities (USN-6731-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
192324	Fedora 38 : rubygem-yard (2024-3744975c4b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
191662	Debian dla-3753 : yard - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
191531	Debian dsa-5635 : yard - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	medium

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