UBUNTU-CVE-2025-48040

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2025-48040

    Published: 11 Sept 2025Last Modified: 8 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2025-48040
    Aliases:
    USN-7831-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-48040, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48040, https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-h7rg-6rjg-4cph, https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7831-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: erlang

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/erlang?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1:16.b.1-dfsg-4ubuntu1
    1:16.b.2-dfsg-1ubuntu1
    1:16.b.2-dfsg-2ubuntu1
    1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu1
    1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2
    1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.1
    1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2
    1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2+esm1
    1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2+esm2
    1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2+esm3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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