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 before OTP 28.0.1, OTP 27.3.4.1 and OTP 26.2.5.13, corresponding to stdlib from 2.0 before 7.0.1, 6.2.2.1 and 5.2.3.4.

SeverityMedium

CVSS4.8

Exploit probability—

Product

Erlang\/otp

PublishedJun 16, 2025

First seenJun 16, 2025

Weakness typeCWE-22Path traversal

How to fix

Patches

Vendor advisories

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

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
erlang erlang\/otp	2.0, 17.0, 07b8f441ca711f9812fad9e9115bab3c3aa92f79	—

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