| Name | CVE-2025-48040 |
| Description | 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 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| erlang (PTS) | bullseye | 1:23.2.6+dfsg-1+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 1:23.2.6+dfsg-1+deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u3 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid, trixie | 1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| erlang | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-h7rg-6rjg-4cph
https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10162
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/7cd7abb7e19e16b027eaee6a54e1f6fbbe21181a (OTP-27.3.4.3, OTP-28.0.3)
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/548f1295d86d0803da884db8685cc16d461d0d5a (OTP-26.2.5.15)