Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby:2.5 security update
Affects Red Hat ruby:2.5Source GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.6 Medium.
Data as of 6 Nov 2026, 07:32 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 2.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 AUS to fix this vulnerability. Users should apply the update ruby-2.5.5-106.module+el8.2.0 or later as provided in RHSA-2024:11027. Detailed update instructions 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 potentially allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by exploiting inefficient regular expression processing. Red Hat has issued a security update for Ruby 2.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support to address this issue.