---
id: CVE-2025-48038
title: >-
  Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang
  OTP ssh (ssh_sftp modules) allows Excessive Allocation, Resource Leak Exposure
summary: >-
  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.


  …
severity: none
cwe:
  - CWE-400
  - CWE-770
published: '2025-09-11'
updated: '2026-07-24'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48038'
references:
  - url: 'https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2025-48038.html'
    label: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/4e3bf86777ab3db7220c11d8ddabf15970ddd10a
    label: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/f09e0201ff701993dc24a08f15e524daf72db42f
    label: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
  - url: 'https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10156'
    label: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
  - url: 'https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-pvj7-9652-7h9r'
    label: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
  - url: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2025-48038'
    label: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
  - url: 'https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions'
    label: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00385
epssPercentile: 0.29858
ingestedAt: '2026-07-24T15:30:57.865Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.