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.

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.

  - yard before 0.9.20 allows path traversal. (CVE-2019-1020001)

  - 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)

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.

  - 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)

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	Severity
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	high
192324	Fedora 38 : rubygem-yard (2024-3744975c4b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
191662	Debian dla-3753 : yard - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
191531	Debian dsa-5635 : yard - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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