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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2025-48039 Detail

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 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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  EEF
CVSS-B 5.3 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/043ee3c943e2977c1acdd740ad13992fd60b6bf0 EEF
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/c242e6458967e9514bea351814151695807a54ac EEF
https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10155 EEF
https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-rr5p-6856-j7h8 EEF
https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions EEF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling EEF  
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption EEF  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-48039
NVD Published Date:
09/11/2025
NVD Last Modified:
09/11/2025
Source:
EEF