Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby:3.1 security update
Affects Red Hat ruby:3.1Source GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.6 Medium.
Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 15:17 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:3.1 module in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 that addresses this vulnerability. Users should apply the update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:10834 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate the issue. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.
Description
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761) has been identified in the REXML library used by Ruby 3.1. 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 the ruby:3.1 module in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to address this issue.