CVE-2025-4748

medium

Description

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Erlang OTP (stdlib modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal, File Manipulation. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/stdlib/src/zip.erl and program routines zip:unzip/1, zip:unzip/2, zip:extract/1, zip:extract/2 unless the memory option is passed. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 until OTP 28.0.1, OTP 27.3.4.1 and OTP 26.2.5.13, corresponding to stdlib from 2.0 until 7.0.1, 6.2.2.1 and 5.2.3.4.

References

https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions

https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-9g37-pgj9-wrhc

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/9941

https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/ba2f2bc5f45fcfd2d6201ba07990a678bbf4cc8f

https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/5a55feec10c9b69189d56723d8f237afa58d5d4f

https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/578d4001575aa7647ea1efd4b2b7e3afadcc99a5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/16/5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-06-16

Updated: 2025-07-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00013