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CVE-2025-48039

Unverified Paths can Cause Excessive Use of System Resources

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.1.4.12, 26.2.5.15
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_sftp modules) allows Excessive Allocation, Resource Leak Exposure. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/ssh/src/ssh_sftpd.erl. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 28.0.3, OTP 27.3.4.3 and OTP 26.2.5.15, corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 before 5.3.3, 5.2.11.3 and 5.1.4.12.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • ssh

    From 3.0.1 · fixed in 5.1.4.12

  • erlang/otp

    From 17.0 · fixed in 26.2.5.15

References 7

GitHub · erlang/otp

cna.erlef.org

osv.dev

erlang.org