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Ubuntu 26.04 YARD Important Info Exposure Vuln USN-8394-1 CVE-2026-41493

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Calendar Grey June 5, 2026
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Update YARD to prevent sensitive information leaks over the network in Ubuntu distributions.
YARD could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Summary

YARD could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Software Description:

- yard: A documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language

Details:

It was discovered that YARD incorrectly sanitized paths in its built-in

documentation server. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary

files from the server host.

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote attack Ubuntu important information exposure yard

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
  yard                            0.9.38-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  yard-doc                        0.9.38-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  yard                            0.9.36-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  yard-doc                        0.9.36-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  yard                            0.9.26-1ubuntu0.1+esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  yard-doc                        0.9.26-1ubuntu0.1+esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  yard                            0.9.24-1+deb11u1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  yard-doc                        0.9.24-1+deb11u1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  yard                            0.9.12-2ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  yard-doc                        0.9.12-2ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  yard                            0.8.7.6+git20160220-3ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  yard-doc                        0.8.7.6+git20160220-3ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8394-1

CVE-2026-41493

Severity
important
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Critical

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8394-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote attack Ubuntu important information exposure yard

Package Information

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