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, 15:06 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 to address this vulnerability. Users should apply the update as described in the Red Hat advisory (RHSA-2024:10858) and the referenced article (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258). Applying this update remediates the vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated or required beyond applying the official patch.
Description
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761) was identified in the REXML library used by Ruby. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause excessive resource consumption by exploiting the way REXML processes certain inputs. Red Hat has issued a security update for Ruby in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to address this issue. The update is rated as having an Important security impact by Red Hat Product Security. No CVSS score is provided in the advisory. The vulnerability affects multiple architectures and variants of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and related products.