CVE-2025-48038 (GCVE-0-2025-48038)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-11 08:13 – Updated: 2026-11-11 19:58
VLAI
Title
Unverified File Handles can Cause Excessive Use of System Resources
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 26.2.5.15, OTP 27.3.4.3, and OTP 28.0.3, corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 before 5.1.4.12, 5.2.11.3, and 5.3.3.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-11 13:30 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
EEF CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard A 97/100 over 357 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Erlang OTP Affected: 17.0 , < * (otp)
    cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Erlang OTP Affected: 3.0.1 , < * (otp)
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Erlang OTP Affected: 07b8f441ca711f9812fad9e9115bab3c3aa92f79 , < * (git)
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Date Public
2025-09-11 08:13
Credits
Jakub Witczak Ingela Anderton Andin
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