VDB
CVE-2025-48038
CVE-2025-48038
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.300000190734863 MEDIUM
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 form OTP 17.0 until OTP 28.0.3, OTP 27.3.4.3 and 26.2.5.15 corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 until 5.3.3, 5.2.11.3 and 5.1.4.12.
EPSS 0.21% · 43.8th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 4.0
5.300000190734863
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
EPSS Score
0.21%
43.8th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Erlang | OTP | 17.0, pkg:otp/ssh@3.0.1 |
| erlang | erlang\/otp | 0, 27.0, 28.0 |
| Erlang | OTP | * |
Exploit Intelligence
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2025-48038 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2025-48038 (circl-sighting)
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-pvj7-9652-7h9r (circl)
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions (circl)
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10156 (circl)
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/4e3bf86777ab3db7220c11d8ddabf15970ddd10a (circl)
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/f09e0201ff701993dc24a08f15e524daf72db42f (circl)
Timeline
- Jan 21, 1970 Fix PR Merged
- Sep 11, 2025 EPSS Score
- Sep 11, 2025 Coalition ESS Score
- Sep 11, 2025 CVE Published
- Sep 11, 2025 PoC Published
- Sep 18, 2025 EPSS Score
- Sep 26, 2025 EPSS Score
- Oct 3, 2025 EPSS Score
- Oct 4, 2025 Coalition ESS Score
- Oct 6, 2025 Coalition ESS Score
- Oct 10, 2025 EPSS Score
- Oct 14, 2025 Coalition ESS Score
References
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-pvj7-9652-7h9r vendor-advisory
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions url
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10156 patch
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/4e3bf86777ab3db7220c11d8ddabf15970ddd10a patch
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/f09e0201ff701993dc24a08f15e524daf72db42f patch