diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/ruby/ruby/CVE-2024-41946.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/ruby/ruby/CVE-2024-41946.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0da383f9b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/ruby/ruby/CVE-2024-41946.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+From 033d1909a8f259d5a7c53681bcaf14f13bcf0368 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: NAITOH Jun <naitoh@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 09:20:31 +0900
+Subject: [PATCH] Add support for XML entity expansion limitation in SAX and 
+ pull parsers (#187)
+
+- Supported `REXML::Security.entity_expansion_limit=` in SAX and pull parsers
+- Supported `REXML::Security.entity_expansion_text_limit=` in SAX and pull parsers
+
+CVE: CVE-2024-41946
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/033d1909a8f259d5a7c53681bcaf14f13bcf0368]
+
+Signed-off-by: Divya Chellam <divya.chellam@windriver.com>
+---
+ .../lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb           | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
+ .../lib/rexml/parsers/pullparser.rb           |  4 ++++
+ .../lib/rexml/parsers/sax2parser.rb           |  4 ++++
+ 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/.bundle/gems/rexml-3.2.5/lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb b/.bundle/gems/rexml-3.2.5/lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb
+index 661f0e2..e32c7f4 100644
+--- a/.bundle/gems/rexml-3.2.5/lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb
++++ b/.bundle/gems/rexml-3.2.5/lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb
+@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ module REXML
+       def initialize( source )
+         self.stream = source
+         @listeners = []
++        @entity_expansion_count = 0
+         @attributes_scanner = StringScanner.new('')
+       end
+ 
+@@ -143,6 +144,7 @@ module REXML
+       end
+ 
+       attr_reader :source
++      attr_reader :entity_expansion_count
+ 
+       def stream=( source )
+         @source = SourceFactory.create_from( source )
+@@ -447,7 +449,9 @@ module REXML
+       def entity( reference, entities )
+         value = nil
+         value = entities[ reference ] if entities
+-        if not value
++        if value
++          record_entity_expansion
++        else
+           value = DEFAULT_ENTITIES[ reference ]
+           value = value[2] if value
+         end
+@@ -486,12 +490,17 @@ module REXML
+         }
+         matches.collect!{|x|x[0]}.compact!
+         if matches.size > 0
++          sum = 0
+           matches.each do |entity_reference|
+             unless filter and filter.include?(entity_reference)
+               entity_value = entity( entity_reference, entities )
+               if entity_value
+                 re = Private::DEFAULT_ENTITIES_PATTERNS[entity_reference] || /&#{entity_reference};/
+                 rv.gsub!( re, entity_value )
++                sum += rv.bytesize
++                if sum > Security.entity_expansion_text_limit
++                  raise "entity expansion has grown too large"
++                end
+               else
+                 er = DEFAULT_ENTITIES[entity_reference]
+                 rv.gsub!( er[0], er[2] ) if er
+@@ -504,6 +513,14 @@ module REXML
+       end
+ 
+       private
++
++      def record_entity_expansion
++        @entity_expansion_count += 1
++        if @entity_expansion_count > Security.entity_expansion_limit
++          raise "number of entity expansions exceeded, processing aborted."
++        end
++      end
++
+       def need_source_encoding_update?(xml_declaration_encoding)
+         return false if xml_declaration_encoding.nil?
+         return false if /\AUTF-16\z/i =~ xml_declaration_encoding
+diff --git a/.bundle/gems/rexml-3.2.5/lib/rexml/parsers/pullparser.rb b/.bundle/gems/rexml-3.2.5/lib/rexml/parsers/pullparser.rb
+index f8b232a..36b4595 100644
+--- a/.bundle/gems/rexml-3.2.5/lib/rexml/parsers/pullparser.rb
++++ b/.bundle/gems/rexml-3.2.5/lib/rexml/parsers/pullparser.rb
+@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ module REXML
+         @listeners << listener
+       end
+ 
++      def entity_expansion_count
++        @parser.entity_expansion_count
++      end
++
+       def each
+         while has_next?
+           yield self.pull
+diff --git a/.bundle/gems/rexml-3.2.5/lib/rexml/parsers/sax2parser.rb b/.bundle/gems/rexml-3.2.5/lib/rexml/parsers/sax2parser.rb
+index 6a24ce2..01cb469 100644
+--- a/.bundle/gems/rexml-3.2.5/lib/rexml/parsers/sax2parser.rb
++++ b/.bundle/gems/rexml-3.2.5/lib/rexml/parsers/sax2parser.rb
+@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ module REXML
+         @parser.source
+       end
+ 
++      def entity_expansion_count
++        @parser.entity_expansion_count
++      end
++
+       def add_listener( listener )
+         @parser.add_listener( listener )
+       end
+-- 
+2.40.0
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/ruby/ruby_3.1.3.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/ruby/ruby_3.1.3.bb
index eec7e4684c..96873fd7fa 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/ruby/ruby_3.1.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/ruby/ruby_3.1.3.bb
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/${SHRT_VER}/ruby-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://CVE-2024-49761-0007.patch \
            file://CVE-2024-49761-0008.patch \
            file://CVE-2024-49761-0009.patch \
+           file://CVE-2024-41946.patch \
            "
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/"