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medium 5.3

CVE-2025-48038 json

Unverified File Handles can Cause Excessive Use of System Resources

published 2025-09-11 13 mo ago modified 2026-07-24 3 mo ago also EUVD-2025-27679

cvss
5.3
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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 from OTP 17.0 before OTP 28.0.3, OTP 27.3.4.3 and OTP 26.2.5.15, corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 before 5.3.3, 5.2.11.3 and 5.1.4.12.

Patch / fix

  • Erlang OTP 5.1.4.12, 5.2.11.3, 5.3.3, 26.2.5.15, 27.3.4.3, 28.0.3
  • erlang Debian 12 1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u4
  • erlang Debian 13 1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u1
  • erlang Debian 14 1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-48038

  • erlang Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1:24.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.6
  • erlang Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1ubuntu4.5
  • erlang Ubuntu 25.10 1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
  • erlang Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2+esm1
  • erlang Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1+esm2
  • erlang Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1:20.2.2+dfsg-1ubuntu2+esm2
  • erlang Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 1:22.2.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.5+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-48038

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • erlang SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP7, openSUSE Leap 15.6 23.3.4.19-150300.3.29.1
  • erlang SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 27.1.3-160000.3.1
  • erlang26 SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP7, openSUSE Leap 15.6 26.2.1-150300.7.22.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0661-1SUSE-SU-2026:20088-1SUSE-SU-2026:0023-1

  • erlang27 openSUSE Tumbleweed 27.1.3-2.1
  • erlang openSUSE Leap 16.0 27.1.3-160000.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10947-1openSUSE-SU-2026:20043-1

  • erlang Azure Linux 3.0 26.2.5.15-1
  • erlang CBL-Mariner 2.0 25.3.2.21-4

azure linux advisories AZL-67115AZL-67118

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-48038 updated cvss 4.3

erlang: Erlang Excessive Use of System Resources

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 erlang, erlang-ssl, erlang-asn1, erlang-erts, erlang-hipe, erlang-sasl, +15 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 erlang-ssl, erlang-asn1, erlang-erts, erlang-sasl, erlang-snmp, erlang-eldap, +13 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 erlang
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
13 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.3 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
CNA 4.0 5.3 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • Erlang OTP

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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