CVE-2025-48038

Medium

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_sftp modules) allows Excessive Allocation, Resource Leak Exposure. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/ssh/src/ssh_sftpd.erl. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 28.0.3, OTP 27.3.4.3 and OTP 26.2.5.15, corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 before 5.3.3, 5.2.11.3 and 5.1.4.12.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.3

Exploit probability—

Product

Erlang\/otp

PublishedSep 11, 2025

First seenSep 11, 2025

Weakness typeCWE-770Allocation of resources without limits CWE-400Uncontrolled resource consumption

How to fix

Patches

Vendor advisories

github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-pvj7-9652-7h9r

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
erlang erlang\/otp	3.0.1, 17.0, 07b8f441ca711f9812fad9e9115bab3c3aa92f79	—

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