Medium severityOSV Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-48038
CVE-2025-48038
Description
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 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.
Affected products
1Patches
34e3bf86777abf09e0201ff7093349170993aVulnerability mechanics
Generated by null/stub on May 9, 2026. Inputs: CWE entries + fix-commit diffs from this CVE's patches. Citations validated against bundle.
References
7- cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2025-48038.htmlnvd
- github.com/erlang/otp/commit/4e3bf86777ab3db7220c11d8ddabf15970ddd10anvd
- github.com/erlang/otp/commit/f09e0201ff701993dc24a08f15e524daf72db42fnvd
- github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10156nvd
- github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-pvj7-9652-7h9rnvd
- osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2025-48038nvd
- www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.htmlnvd
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