Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update
Affects Red Hat rubySource GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.6 Medium.
Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 15:05 UTC
Thin evidence
One scorer or none| CNA (GitHub_M) | CVSS 4.0 | 6.6 |
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:UExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 28 Oct 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 5 Nov 2026.
What to do
AI-suggested
Red Hat has released updated Ruby packages that fix the REXML ReDoS vulnerability. Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support and related variants should apply the official security update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:10961. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the vendor-provided patch.
Description
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761) was identified in the REXML library used by Ruby. This vulnerability affects Ruby packages distributed by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support and related variants. Red Hat has issued an important security update to address this issue.