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CVE-2024-49761VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby:2.5 security update

Affects Red Hat ruby:2.5Source GCVE Database

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Authoritative record:CVE-2024-49761· Medium 6.6

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.6 Medium.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 15:05 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
6.6Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

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CVSS scores by source
CNA (GitHub_M)CVSS 4.06.6
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:U

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 28 Oct 2024

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq 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 updated Ruby 2.5 package that addresses this ReDoS vulnerability. Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 should apply the security update as detailed in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:10850. Instructions for applying the update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.

Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761) has been identified in the REXML library used by Ruby 2.5. This vulnerability can cause excessive resource consumption when processing certain crafted inputs. Red Hat has issued a security update for Ruby 2.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to address this issue.

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