CVE-2025-48040CWE-400CWE-770

Malicious Key Exchange Messages may Lead to Excessive Resource Consumption

Medium · published September 11, 2025

CVSS v4.0
6.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
36.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 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
6.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00431 · 36.3th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2025-09-11T08:14Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 08:14Z
    Malicious Key Exchange Messages may Lead to Excessive Resource Consumption
    cvelistv5