Link Following Affecting erlang-sasl package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-ERLANGSASL-17330261
  • published13 Jun 2026
  • disclosed10 Jun 2026

Introduced: 10 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-48855  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 erlang-sasl.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream erlang-sasl package and not the erlang-sasl package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_sftpd module) allows File Discovery.

The SSH_FXP_READLINK handler in ssh_sftpd sends the raw result of file:read_link/2 to the client without calling chroot_filename/2 to strip the backend root prefix. An authenticated SFTP client can create a symlink inside the chroot pointing to /; ssh_sftpd resolves the target to the absolute backend root and stores it on disk. Reading the symlink back via SSH_FXP_READLINK returns that absolute path, for example /data/sftp, instead of the chrooted value /.

The information disclosed is the absolute filesystem path of the SFTP root directory and of any symlink targets within it. No file contents, credentials, or access to paths outside the root directory are obtainable through this issue alone.

This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/ssh/src/ssh_sftpd.erl.

This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before 29.0.2, 28.5.0.2 and 27.3.4.13 corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 before 6.0.1, 5.5.2.1 and 5.2.11.8.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1