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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 official security update for Ruby 2.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 to address this vulnerability. Users should apply the update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:11028 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate the issue. No additional mitigations are specified or required beyond applying the official patch.

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 could allow an attacker to cause excessive resource consumption by exploiting the way REXML processes certain inputs. Red Hat has issued a security advisory for Ruby 2.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, rating the update as Important and providing patches to address this issue.

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