CVE-2025-48041

high

Description

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 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.

References

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

https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-79c4-cvv7-4qm3

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10157

https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/d49efa2d4fa9e6f7ee658719cd76ffe7a33c2401

https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/5f9af63eec4657a37663828d206517828cb9f288

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-11

Updated: 2025-09-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: 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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00045