Red Hat Security Advisory: Satellite 6.17.3 Async Update
Affects Red HatSource 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
Users should upgrade to the updated Red Hat Satellite 6.17.3 packages that include the fix for CVE-2024-49761. Before applying the update, ensure all previously released errata relevant to the system are applied. Follow Red Hat's official update documentation for Satellite 6.17 to apply the patch correctly. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.
Description
Red Hat Satellite 6.17.3 includes a security update addressing a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the REXML library affecting puppetserver and puppet-agent components. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-49761. The update is rated with moderate severity and users are advised to upgrade to the fixed packages to mitigate the issue.
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:13269 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.17/html/updating_red_hat_satellite/index (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322153 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35573 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35575 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35576 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35577 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35579 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35580 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35581 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35582 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35583 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35584 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35586 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35587 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35718 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-36341 (opens in a new tab)
- issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-36426 (opens in a new tab)
- security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_13269.json (opens in a new tab)