CVE-2025-48038

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48038
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-48038.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-48038
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-11T08:13:04.030Z
Modified
2026-05-21T03:53:43.846497242Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - 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 CVSS Calculator
Summary
Unverified File Handles can Cause Excessive Use of System Resources
Details

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (sshsftp modules) allows Excessive Allocation, Resource Leak Exposure. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/ssh/src/sshsftpd.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.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-400",
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "EEF",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/48xxx/CVE-2025-48038.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "3.0.1"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "*"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "17.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "*"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "07b8f441ca711f9812fad9e9115bab3c3aa92f79"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "*"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/erlang/otp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/erlang/otp
Events

Affected versions

OTP-28.*
OTP-28.0
OTP-28.0.1
OTP-28.0.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-48038.json"