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 6 Nov 2026, 07:34 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 an official security update for Ruby in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support that addresses this vulnerability. Users should apply the update ruby-3.0.4-161.el9_2.2 and related packages as provided by Red Hat to remediate the issue. Refer to Red Hat's official update article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 for detailed instructions. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.
Description
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761) was identified in the REXML library used by Ruby. This vulnerability can cause excessive resource consumption when processing certain crafted inputs. Red Hat has issued a security update for Ruby in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support to address this issue. The update is rated as Important by Red Hat Product Security. No CVSS score is provided in the advisory. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at this time.