CVE-2025-48041SSH_FXP_OPENDIR may Lead to Exhaustion of File Handles
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.49%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 58% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling 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 26.2.5.15, OTP 27.3.4.3, and OTP 28.0.3, corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 before 5.1.4.12, 5.2.11.3, and 5.3.3.
Timeline
ID reserved
By EEF
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| EEFCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High7.1 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | High7.1 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.49% · top 58% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
What to do
Workaround: * disabling SFTP * limiting number of max_sessions allowed for sshd, so exploiting becomes more complicated
References
References8
- SSH_FXP_OPENDIR may Lead to Exhaustion of File Handles (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryrelated
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2025-48041 (opens in a new tab)related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2025-48041 (opens in a new tab)related
- Erlang/OTP version ordering (opens in a new tab)x_version-scheme
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10157 (opens in a new tab)patch
- Introducing commit 07b8f44 in erlang/otp (opens in a new tab)related
- Fix commit d49efa2 in erlang/otp (opens in a new tab)patch
- Fix commit 5f9af63 in erlang/otp (opens in a new tab)patch
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-27676 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-48041)Record last updated .