FKIE_CVE-2026-48855

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-10 16:17 - Updated: 2026-06-10 20:19
Severity
2.3 (Low) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_sftpd module) allows File Discovery. The SSH_FXP_READLINK handler in ssh_sftpd sends the raw result of file:read_link/2 to the client without calling chroot_filename/2 to strip the backend root prefix. An authenticated SFTP client can create a symlink inside the chroot pointing to /; ssh_sftpd resolves the target to the absolute backend root and stores it on disk. Reading the symlink back via SSH_FXP_READLINK returns that absolute path, for example /data/sftp, instead of the chrooted value /. The information disclosed is the absolute filesystem path of the SFTP root directory and of any symlink targets within it. No file contents, credentials, or access to paths outside the root directory are obtainable through this issue alone. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/ssh/src/ssh_sftpd.erl. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before 29.0.2, 28.5.0.2 and 27.3.4.13 corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 before 6.0.1, 5.5.2.1 and 5.2.11.8.
References
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-48855.html
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/8f4224a0d2676b0653d2c71a889a956e8c2c62d6
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-pv7g-pjrq-x2fh
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-48855
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions
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