Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package erlang.src (opens in a new tab)
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- published12 Sept 2025
- disclosed11 Sept 2025
Introduced: 11 Sep 2025
CVE-2025-48040 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream erlang.src package and not the erlang.src package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2394521
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-48040
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/548f1295d86d0803da884db8685cc16d461d0d5a
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/7cd7abb7e19e16b027eaee6a54e1f6fbbe21181a
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10162
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-h7rg-6rjg-4cph
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2025-48040.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2025-48040