CVE-2025-48039CWE-400CWE-770

Unverified Paths can Cause Excessive Use of System Resources

Medium · published September 11, 2025

CVSS v4.0
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
32.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 from OTP 17.0 before OTP 28.0.3, OTP 27.3.4.3 and OTP 26.2.5.15, corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 before 5.3.3, 5.2.11.3 and 5.1.4.12.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00394 · 32.5th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2025-09-11T08:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 08:13Z
    Unverified Paths can Cause Excessive Use of System Resources
    cvelistv5