Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting ruby2.5-devel package, versions <2.5.9-150700.24.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.42% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-RUBY25DEVEL-14135676
  • published27 Nov 2025
  • disclosed26 Nov 2025

Introduced: 26 Nov 2025

CVE-2024-49761  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 ruby2.5-devel to version 2.5.9-150700.24.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.5-devel package and not the ruby2.5-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1