CVE-2025-48041 (GCVE-0-2025-48041)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-11 08:14 – Updated: 2026-07-24 14:14
VLAI
Title
SSH_FXP_OPENDIR may Lead to Exhaustion of File Handles
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_sftp modules) allows Excessive Allocation, Flooding. 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.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/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
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Erlang OTP Affected: 3.0.1 , < * (otp)
    cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Erlang OTP Affected: 17.0 , < * (otp)
Affected: 07b8f441ca711f9812fad9e9115bab3c3aa92f79 , < * (git)
    cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Jakub Witczak Ingela Anderton Andin
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