lsegal yard up to 0.9.34 Documentation frames.html cross site scripting

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in lsegal yard up to 0.9.34. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file frames.html of the component Documentation. Executing a manipulation can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2024-27285. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in lsegal yard up to 0.9.34. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the file frames.html of the component Documentation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

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 0.9.35.

The weakness was published 02/28/2024 as GHSA-8mq4-9jjh-9xrc. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-27285 since 02/22/2024. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

By approaching the search of inurl:frames.html it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 0.9.35 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 2069e2bf08293bda2fcc78f7d0698af6354054be is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Vendor

• lsegal

Name

• yard

Version

• 0.9.0
• 0.9.1
• 0.9.2
• 0.9.3
• 0.9.4
• 0.9.5
• 0.9.6
• 0.9.7
• 0.9.8
• 0.9.9
• 0.9.10
• 0.9.11
• 0.9.12
• 0.9.13
• 0.9.14
• 0.9.15
• 0.9.16
• 0.9.17
• 0.9.18
• 0.9.19
• 0.9.20
• 0.9.21
• 0.9.22
• 0.9.23
• 0.9.24
• 0.9.25
• 0.9.26
• 0.9.27
• 0.9.28
• 0.9.29
• 0.9.30
• 0.9.31
• 0.9.32
• 0.9.33
• 0.9.34

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/lsegal/yard/

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