CVE-2025-48040

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 from 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.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2025-48040.html
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://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2025-48040
https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions

Configurations

No configuration.

History

05 Jun 2026, 13:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Summary	(en) 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.	(en) 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 from 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.

06 Apr 2026, 17:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		() https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2025-48040.html - () https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2025-48040 -

11 Sep 2025, 09:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-09-11 09:15

Updated : 2026-06-05 13:16

NVD link : CVE-2025-48040

Mitre link : CVE-2025-48040

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-48040

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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