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 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 an official security update for the ruby:2.5 module in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 to address CVE-2024-49761. Users should apply the update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:11029 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation steps are required beyond applying the official patch.
Description
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability has been identified in the REXML library used by Ruby 2.5. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-49761 and affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 distributions that include the ruby:2.5 module. The issue could allow an attacker to cause denial of service by exploiting the vulnerable regular expression processing in REXML. Red Hat has issued a security update to address this vulnerability.