EEF-CVE-2025-48040

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Source
https://cna.erlef.org/osv/EEF-CVE-2025-48040.html
Import Source
https://cna.erlef.org/osv/EEF-CVE-2025-48040.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/EEF-CVE-2025-48040
Aliases
Published
2025-09-11T08:14:19Z
Modified
2026-11-11T20:00:04Z
Severity
  • 6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - 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 CVSS Calculator
Summary
Malicious Key Exchange Messages may Lead to Excessive Resource Consumption
Details

Summary

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 before OTP 26.2.5.15, OTP 27.3.4.3, and OTP 28.0.3, corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 before 5.1.4.12, 5.2.11.3, and 5.3.3.

Workarounds

  • set option parallel_login to false
  • reduce max_sessions option
Database specific 
{
    "capec_ids": [
        "CAPEC-130",
        "CAPEC-125"
    ],
    "cpe_ids": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-400",
        "CWE-770"
    ]
}
References
Credits
    • Jakub Witczak - REMEDIATION_DEVELOPER
    • Ingela Anderton Andin - REMEDIATION_REVIEWER

Affected packages

Git / github.com/erlang/otp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/erlang/otp
Events
Introduced
07b8f441ca711f9812fad9e9115bab3c3aa92f79
Fixed
548f1295d86d0803da884db8685cc16d461d0d5a
Fixed
7cd7abb7e19e16b027eaee6a54e1f6fbbe21181a

Affected versions

OTP-17.*
OTP-17.0
OTP-18.*
OTP-18.0
OTP-18.0-rc1
OTP-19.*
OTP-19.0
OTP-19.0-rc1
OTP-19.0-rc2
OTP-20.*
OTP-20.0
OTP-20.0-rc1
OTP-20.0-rc2
OTP-21.*
OTP-21.0
OTP-21.0-rc1
OTP-21.0-rc2
OTP-22.*
OTP-22.0
OTP-22.0-rc1
OTP-22.0-rc2
OTP-22.0-rc3
OTP-23.*
OTP-23.0
OTP-23.0-rc1
OTP-23.0-rc2
OTP-23.0-rc3
OTP-24.*
OTP-24.0
OTP-24.0-rc1
OTP-24.0-rc2
OTP-24.0-rc3
OTP-25.*
OTP-25.0
OTP-25.0-rc1
OTP-25.0-rc2
OTP-25.0-rc3
OTP-26.*
OTP-26.0
OTP-26.0-rc1
OTP-26.0-rc2
OTP-26.0-rc3
OTP-26.1
OTP-26.2
OTP-26.2.3
OTP-26.2.4
OTP-26.2.5
OTP-26.2.5.1
OTP-26.2.5.10
OTP-26.2.5.11
OTP-26.2.5.12
OTP-26.2.5.13
OTP-26.2.5.14
OTP-26.2.5.2
OTP-26.2.5.3
OTP-26.2.5.4
OTP-26.2.5.5
OTP-26.2.5.6
OTP-26.2.5.7
OTP-26.2.5.8
OTP-26.2.5.9
OTP-27.*
OTP-27.0
OTP-27.0-rc1
OTP-27.0-rc2
OTP-27.0-rc3
OTP-27.1
OTP-27.2
OTP-27.3
OTP-27.3.1
OTP-27.3.2
OTP-27.3.3
OTP-27.3.4
Other
patch-base-26
patch-base-27

Database specific

source 
"https://cna.erlef.org/osv/EEF-CVE-2025-48040.json"