Medium severityOSV Advisory· Published Jun 16, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-4748
CVE-2025-4748
Description
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Erlang OTP (stdlib modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal, File Manipulation. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/stdlib/src/zip.erl and program routines zip:unzip/1, zip:unzip/2, zip:extract/1, zip:extract/2 unless the memory option is passed.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 until OTP 28.0.1, OTP 27.3.4.1 and OTP 26.2.5.13, corresponding to stdlib from 2.0 until 7.0.1, 6.2.2.1 and 5.2.3.4.
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Affected products
12- osv-coords10 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/erlang26&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/erlang27&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/erlang&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/erlang&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/suse/erlang26&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/erlang26&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/erlang&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/erlang&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/erlang&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2016.0pkg:rpm/suse/erlang&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20applications%2016.0
< 26.2.1-150300.7.14.3+ 9 more
- (no CPE)range: < 26.2.1-150300.7.14.3
- (no CPE)range: < 27.1.3-2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 23.3.4.19-150300.3.23.3
- (no CPE)range: < 27.1.3-160000.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 26.2.1-150300.7.14.3
- (no CPE)range: < 26.2.1-150300.7.14.3
- (no CPE)range: < 23.3.4.19-150300.3.23.3
- (no CPE)range: < 23.3.4.19-150300.3.23.3
- (no CPE)range: < 27.1.3-160000.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 27.1.3-160000.5.1
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References
9- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/16/5nvd
- cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2025-4748.htmlnvd
- github.com/erlang/otp/commit/578d4001575aa7647ea1efd4b2b7e3afadcc99a5nvd
- github.com/erlang/otp/commit/5a55feec10c9b69189d56723d8f237afa58d5d4fnvd
- github.com/erlang/otp/commit/ba2f2bc5f45fcfd2d6201ba07990a678bbf4cc8fnvd
- github.com/erlang/otp/pull/9941nvd
- github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-9g37-pgj9-wrhcnvd
- osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2025-4748nvd
- www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.htmlnvd
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