CVE-2025-48040

MEDIUM EPSS 32.0%
Published Sep 11, 20259mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
6.9 CVSS 4.0
Medium
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Published Sep 11, 2025 9mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption 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 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.

CVSS Details

Base Score
6.9
Exploitability
—
Impact
—
Vector string
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope X

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
32.0% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 2

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Resource Mgmt
CWE-770

References 7

  • cna.erlef.org https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2025-48040.html
  • github.com https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/548f1295d86d0803da884db8685cc16d461d0d5a
  • github.com https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/7cd7abb7e19e16b027eaee6a54e1f6fbbe21181a
  • github.com https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10162
  • github.com https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-h7rg-6rjg-4cph
  • osv.dev https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2025-48040
  • erlang.org https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

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