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  • Medium 5.9

    erl_tar:extract/2 loops forever on a GNU sparse member with a trailing hole

    Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') vulnerability in Erlang OTP stdlib (erl_tar module), hexpm hex_core (hex_erl_tar module), hexpm hex (mix_hex_erl_tar module) and erlang rebar3 (r3_hex_erl_tar module) allows an attacker who supplies a tar…

  • Medium 6.3

    TLS 1.2 session resumption in ssl crosses SNI virtual-host client-certificate trust boundaries

    Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in the ssl application in Erlang/OTP allows a client that holds a certificate trusted by one SNI virtual host to authenticate to a second SNI virtual host on the same listener by resuming its TLS 1.2 session there…

  • High 8.2

    TLS 1.3 client ticket store crashed by NewSessionTicket with empty early_data extension in ssl

    Improper Validation of Consistency within Input vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssl (tls_handshake_1_3, ssl_handshake and tls_client_ticket_store modules) allows a malicious TLS 1.3 server to cause a denial of service of the ssl application on the client node. Th…

  • High 8.2

    Superlinear CPU denial of service in Erlang/OTP ASN.1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER decoder

    Inefficient algorithmic complexity in the Erlang/OTP asn1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER decoder allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service by sending a crafted OID during the TLS handshake. The BER OID decoder asn1rtt_ber:dec_subidentifiers/3 in …

  • High 7.1

    SSH daemon allocates unbounded idle session channels, bypassing max_channels

    Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssh allows an authenticated remote attacker to exhaust node memory by repeatedly opening session channels that are never assigned a handler. The "session" clause of ssh_connectio…

  • Critical 9.3

    TLS 1.3 client skips server authentication when ServerHello carries an unsolicited pre_shared_key extension

    Key Exchange without Entity Authentication vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssl allows a peer that answers a TLS 1.3 client connection to impersonate the intended server. A pre_shared_key extension in the ServerHello that the client never offered causes the client…

  • High 8.7

    httpd parks a request worker indefinitely on a malformed chunk size sent after the headers

    Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by sending a request with a chunked body whose chunk-size line is not a hexadecimal number. The w…

  • Medium 6.3

    eldap does not bound the port component of a referral URL before integer conversion

    Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP eldap allows a malicious or compromised LDAP server to degrade availability by returning a referral URL whose port component is a very long run of digits. eldap:parse_port/2 passes…

  • Medium 6.3

    snmp BER INTEGER decoder applies no size limit to attacker-supplied integer fields

    Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP snmp allows a remote attacker to degrade availability by sending an SNMP message containing a BER INTEGER whose length field is arbitrarily large. snmp_pdus:dec_integer_notag/1 def…

  • High 8.2

    httpd mod_auth directory protection bypassed by a doubled slash in the request path

    Path Equivalence vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to read files inside a mod_auth protected directory by prefixing the request path with an extra slash. httpd_request:validate_uri/1 normalises the request URI wi…

  • High 8.2

    httpd mod_auth directory protection bypassed by request path casing on case-insensitive filesystems

    Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to read files inside a mod_auth protected directory by requesting them with different casing, on deployments whose filesystem is case-insens…

  • High 8.2

    A Signed Length Overflow in Erlang/OTP's inet TCP Driver Overflows the Receive Buffer Into BEAM VM Memory From an Unauthenticated Peer

    An attacker that connects to an open Erlang TCP port that uses the inet driver with {packet,4} mode can use a signed overflow in an incorrect packet length calculation to overflow the receive buffer into the VM allocator area and beyond up to about 2 GB. This…

  • Medium 6.0

    inets, httpd: Authentication Bypass via Directory Namespace Collapse in httpd mod_auth

    The mod_auth module in OTP's inets httpd server, when configured with dets or mnesia authentication backends and multiple directory configuration blocks, collapses all directory blocks into a single shared user/group namespace. A user added to one protected d…

  • High 8.7

    inets,httpd: Memory Exhaustion via Unenforced max_body_size During Chunked Body Reception

    The inets application HTTP server httpd fails to enforce a configured body-size limit on chunked request. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, OTP 28.5.0.6, and OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, 9.6.2.3, and 9.…

  • High 8.3

    inets, httpd: HTTP Request Smuggling via Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length

    httpd function check_header/3 rejects duplicate Content-Length (per CVE-2026-23941) but never checks for the TE+CL co-presence that RFC 9112 §6.3 identifies as a probable smuggling attempt. handle_body/3 frames by chunked and silently discards Content-Length.…

  • High 8.3

    inets, httpd: HTTP Request Smuggling via Whitespace-Before-Colon Header Dropping i

    Gracefulness code ignored cases that should be rejected, resulting in possible HTTP Request Smuggling opportunities. This issue affects OTP from OTP 22.2 before OTP 27.3.4.17, OTP 28.5.0.6, and OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 7.1.2 before 9.3.2.7, 9.6…

  • High 8.3

    inets,httpd:HTTP Request Smuggling via obs-fold Header Continuation

    httpd has never implemented obs-fold (RFC 2616 §2.2 / RFC 7230 §3.2.4 header continuation lines). Every CRLF followed by a non-CRLF octet unconditionally starts a new header. This missing feature became a security concern as the understanding of HTTP request …

  • Medium 6.9

    uri_string does not bound the port component of a URI before integer conversion

    Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP stdlib allows a remote attacker to degrade availability by supplying a URI whose port component is a very long run of digits. uri_string:get_port/1 passes the port substring to bin…

  • High 8.2

    httpc memory exhaustion via unbounded response header accumulation

    The Erlang/OTP httpc HTTP client does not enforce a limit on the total size of response headers received from a server. The max_header_size option defaults to nolimit, and httpc_response:parse_headers/6 accumulates every header into a list before the length c…

  • High 8.7

    httpd applies no timeout while receiving a request body, parking a worker on a stalled client

    Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by sending valid request headers with a large Content-Length and then stalling before the body is…

  • High 8.7

    httpd does not enforce the documented default max_clients connection limit

    Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by opening and holding open a large number of connections. The max_clients option is documented t…

  • High 8.2

    BEAM VM crash via integer underflow in binary_to_term BIT_BINARY_EXT decoding

    Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) vulnerability in erlang otp erlang/otp (erts modules), erlang otp erts (erts modules) allows Forced Integer Overflow, Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files erts/emulator/beam/external.…

  • High 8.7

    Denial of service via exponential certificate policy tree growth in path validation

    Allocation of resources without limits in Erlang/OTP public_key certificate path validation allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service by sending a crafted X.509 certificate chain during the TLS handshake. During RFC 5280 policy proce…

  • High 8.3

    Megaco flex scanner buffer overflow via oversized property parm name

    Classic buffer overflow in the Erlang/OTP megaco flex scanner C driver allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to corrupt the driver's memory (and potentially achieve remote code execution or a denial-of-service crash) by sending a single text-encoded H.248/…

  • Critical 9.1

    TLS 1.2 and DTLS client accepts unoffered anonymous cipher suite, bypassing server authentication

    The Erlang/OTP ssl TLS 1.2 (and earlier) and DTLS client does not verify that the cipher suite selected by the server in ServerHello was among the suites offered by the client in ClientHello. The client-side tls_handshake:hello/5 handler validates the negotia…

  • Medium 5.1

    Heap pointer corruption via signed/unsigned mismatch in LARGE_TUPLE_EXT decoding in erts external term format decoder

    Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error and Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts allows an attacker who can supply a crafted Erlang external term format (ETF) binary to binary_to_term/1 to corrupt the BEAM heap pointer and crash the virtual machin…

  • Medium 4.8

    Relative path traversal in zip:unzip/zip:extract via check_dir_level depth-counter bypass

    Relative Path Traversal vulnerability in Erlang OTP (stdlib zip module) allows writing files outside the intended extraction directory via a crafted zip archive. zip:unzip/1,2 and zip:extract/1,2 validate entry paths using zip:check_dir_level/2, which tracks …

  • Medium 6.3

    epmd permanent DoS via EMFILE on accept(2) in erts

    Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts (epmd) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently terminate the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon (epmd) via connection slot exhaustion. The do_accept function in erts/epmd/src…

  • High 8.7

    TLS/DTLS denial of service via unbounded recursion on cross-signed peer certificate chain

    The Erlang/OTP ssl application does not detect cycles when reconstructing an incomplete peer certificate chain during a TLS or DTLS handshake. In ssl_certificate:handle_incomplete_chain/5, the received chain is passed to ssl_certificate:build_certificate_chai…

  • Medium 6.3

    Plaintext APPLICATION_DATA injected during TLS handshake delivered to client application post-handshake in ssl

    Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssl (tls_gen_connection module) allows a network-positioned attacker to inject unauthenticated plaintext that the TLS client application later…

  • High 8.7

    DTLS listener crash via race condition in dtls_packet_demux causes denial of service for all sessions

    Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssl (dtls_packet_demux module) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash all active DTLS sessions on a listener. A DTLS server listener uses a single shared dtls_packet_dem…

  • Medium 5.3

    SSH SFTP server denial of service via extended channel data infinite loop

    Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_sftpd module) allows an authenticated SFTP user to render an SFTP channel permanently unresponsive. The handle_data/4 function in ssh_sftpd contains a catch-all clause…

  • High 8.2

    TLS 1.3 server denial of service via malformed ClientHello pre-shared key extension

    The Erlang/OTP ssl application does not validate that the PSK identity list and binder list carried in a TLS 1.3 ClientHello pre-shared key extension have equal length before passing them to the session ticket handler. In tls_handshake_1_3:handle_pre_shared_k…

  • Medium 6.3

    DTLS server cookie bypass during startup window due to empty initial cookie secret

    Use of Default Cryptographic Key vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssl (DTLS server) allows predictable DTLS cookie computation during the startup window, enabling source address verification bypass. On DTLS server startup, dtls_server_connection:initial_hello/3 in…

  • Low 2.3

    SFTP REALPATH path-existence oracle allowing filesystem enumeration outside configured root

    Observable Response Discrepancy vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_sftpd module) allows an authenticated SFTP user to enumerate the existence of files and directories outside the configured root directory. The SSH_FXP_REALPATH handler in ssh_sftpd calls rel…

  • High 7.1

    httpc leaks Authorization header to cross-origin redirect targets

    Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability in Erlang OTP inets (httpc_response module) allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data. The httpc client forwards the Authorization and Proxy-Authorization request headers to redirect targets without checking whether the red…

  • Low 2.3

    SFTP READLINK Leaks Absolute Backend Filesystem Path When Root Is Configured

    Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_sftpd module) allows File Discovery. The SSH_FXP_READLINK handler in ssh_sftpd sends the raw result of file:read_link/2 to the client without calling chroot_filena…

  • High 7.5

    Distribution-over-TLS LAN allowlist silently bypassed due to sockname/peername confusion in inet_tls_dist

    Reliance on IP Address for Authentication vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssl (inet_tls_dist module) allows unauthenticated bypass of the distribution-over-TLS LAN allowlist. The inet_tls_dist:check_ip/1 function, which enforces a LAN allowlist for Erlang distrib…

  • Medium 6.3

    ftp client PASV response IP not validated against control peer, enabling SSRF and FTP bounce attacks

    Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ftp (ftp_internal module) allows FTP bounce attacks and SSRF via an unvalidated PASV response IP address. The ftp_internal:handle_ctrl_result/2 PASV handler (mode=passive, ipfamily=inet, ftp_exten…

  • Medium 6.3

    SSH server timing side-channel in ssh_auth:check_password/3 allows unauthenticated username enumeration

    Observable Timing Discrepancy vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssh (ssh_auth, ssh_options modules) allows unauthenticated remote username enumeration via timing side-channel in password authentication. When the SSH daemon is configured with the user_passwords or p…