CVE-2025-48038

Publication date 11 September 2025

Last updated 21 October 2025

Ubuntu priority

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
erlang	25.10 questing	Fixed 1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 1:27.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.3
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1ubuntu4.5
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1:24.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.6
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1:22.2.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.5+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1:20.2.2+dfsg-1ubuntu2+esm2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1+esm2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2+esm1

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
erlang	Upstream: 4e3bf86 Upstream: f09e020 Upstream: https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10156

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7831-1
Erlang vulnerabilities
21 October 2025