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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-05-15 | Published 2025-09-11 | Updated 2025-09-12 | Assigner EEF




MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Product status

Default status
unknown

pkg:otp/ssh@3.0.1 (purl) before pkg:otp/ssh@*
affected

17.0 (otp) before *
affected

07b8f441ca711f9812fad9e9115bab3c3aa92f79 (git) before *
affected

Credits

Jakub Witczak remediation developer

Ingela Andin remediation reviewer

References

github.com/...ng/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-pvj7-9652-7h9r vendor-advisory

www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html

github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10156 patch

github.com/...ommit/4e3bf86777ab3db7220c11d8ddabf15970ddd10a patch

github.com/...ommit/f09e0201ff701993dc24a08f15e524daf72db42f patch

cve.org (CVE-2025-48038)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-48038)

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