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CVE-2024-49761VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: Satellite 6.17.3 Async Update

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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.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
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

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.

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