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SCA: security update for yard (GHSA-3jfp-46x4-xgfj)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 440604

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2026-41493)

Solution

Update the yard library and its related packages to version 0.9.42 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3jfp-46x4-xgfj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 440604

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/18/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41493

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41493

cwe: CWE-22