Yard · Yard · CVE-2017-17042
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
YARD versions prior to 0.9.11
**Description**
The issue allows attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read arbitrary files due to the failure to block relative paths with an initial ../ sequence in the lib/yard/core ext/file.rb file.
**Recommendations**
For versions prior to 0.9.11, update to version 0.9.11 or later to resolve the issue.