The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:10982 advisory.

    Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text     files and to perform system management tasks.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rexml: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:11027 advisory.

    Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text     files and to perform system management tasks.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rexml: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:11029 advisory.

    Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text     files and to perform system management tasks.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rexml: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:11028 advisory.

    Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text     files and to perform system management tasks.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rexml: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2024:10860 advisory.

    * rexml: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

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An update of the ruby package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:11047 advisory.

    The pcs packages provide a command-line configuration system for the Pacemaker and Corosync utilities.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rexml: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 3 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2024:1113 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2024-49761:
    REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an     XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does     not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or     later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent Linux security advisory.

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The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2025-9910:01 advisory.

    * CVE-2025-27219: fix a potential Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in     cookie parsing
    * CVE-2025-27220: fix ReDoS vulnerability exists in the escapeElement   method
    * CVE-2025-27221: fix he URI handling methods (URI.join, URI#merge, URI#+)     CVE(s):
    CVE-2024-49761     REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an     XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does     not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or     later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
    CVE-2025-27219     In the CGI gem before 0.4.2 for Ruby, the CGI::Cookie.parse method in the CGI library contains a potential     Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability. The method does not impose any limit on the length of the raw     cookie value it processes. This oversight can lead to excessive resource consumption when parsing     extremely large cookies.
    CVE-2025-27220     In the CGI gem before 0.4.2 for Ruby, a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists     in the Util#escapeElement method.
    CVE-2025-27221     In the URI gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby, the URI handling methods (URI.join, URI#merge, URI#+) have an     inadvertent leakage of authentication credentials because userinfo is retained even after changing the     host.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

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The remote MiracleLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2024-9441:04 advisory.

    * rexml: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

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The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2024-9315:01 advisory.

    * rexml: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

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The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:17614 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations     to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide     public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It     performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard     operating environments.

    Security Fix(es):

    * python-django: Django SQL injection in FilteredRelation column aliases (CVE-2025-57833)
    * cjson: out-of-bounds access in decode_array_index_from_pointer() in cJSON_Utils.c via crafted JSON     pointer strings (CVE-2025-57052)
    * puppet-agent: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)

    Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated     packages, which fix these bugs.

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The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7091-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has specific XML     characters in an attribute value using REXML gem. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash,     resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2024-35176, CVE-2024-39908, CVE-2024-41123)

    It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has many entity expansions     with SAX2 or pull parser API. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a     denial of service. (CVE-2024-41946)

    It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has many digits in a hex     numeric character reference. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a     denial of service. (CVE-2024-49761)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4264-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-35221: Fixed remote DoS via YAML manifest (bsc#1225905)
    - CVE-2024-47220: Fixed HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick (bsc#1230930)
    - CVE-2024-49761: Fixed ReDOS vulnerability by updating REXML to 3.3.9 (bsc#1232440)
    - CVE-2025-24294: Fixed denial of service (DoS) caused by an insufficient check on the length       of a decompressed domain name within a DNS packet in resolv gem (bsc#1246430)
    - CVE-2025-27219: Fixed denial of service in CGI::Cookie.parse (bsc#1237804)
    - CVE-2025-27220: Fixed ReDoS in CGI::Util#escapeElement (bsc#1237806)
    - CVE-2025-27221: Fixed userinfo leakage in URI#join, URI#merge and URI#+ (bsc#1237805)
    - CVE-2025-6442: Fixed ruby WEBrick read_header HTTP request smuggling vulnerability (bsc#1245254)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
212675	RHEL 9 : ruby:3.1 (RHSA-2024:10982)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	12/12/2024	12/12/2024	high
212719	RHEL 8 : ruby:2.5 (RHSA-2024:11027)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	12/12/2024	12/12/2024	high
212742	RHEL 8 : ruby:2.5 (RHSA-2024:11029)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	12/13/2024	12/13/2024	high
212743	RHEL 8 : ruby:2.5 (RHSA-2024:11028)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	12/13/2024	12/13/2024	high
213227	RockyLinux 9 : ruby:3.1 (RLSA-2024:10860)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	12/19/2024	12/19/2024	high
213432	Photon OS 5.0: Ruby PHSA-2024-5.0-0423	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	12/30/2024	1/21/2026	high
242104	RHEL 8 : pcs (RHSA-2025:11047)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	7/15/2025	7/15/2025	high
239639	TencentOS Server 3: ruby:3.1 (TSSA-2024:1113)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	6/16/2025	12/4/2025	high
282961	MiracleLinux 7 : ruby-2.0.0.648-39.0.2.el7.AXS7 (AXSA:2025-9910:01)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	1/13/2026	1/13/2026	high
292605	MiracleLinux 9 : ruby-3.0.7-163.el9_5 (AXSA:2024-9441:04)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	1/20/2026	1/20/2026	high
293206	MiracleLinux 8 : ruby:2.5 (AXSA:2024-9315:01)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	1/20/2026	1/20/2026	high
269752	RHEL 8 : Satellite 6.15.5.5 Async Update (Important) (RHSA-2025:17614)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	10/8/2025	10/8/2025	high
210332	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : Ruby vulnerabilities (USN-7091-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	11/5/2024	12/23/2024	high
277246	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ruby2.5 (SUSE-SU-2025:4264-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	12/3/2025	12/3/2025	high

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