CVE-2025-48040: Erlang OTP

Malicious Key Exchange Messages may Lead to Excessive Resource Consumption

CVSS 6.9 MediumEPSS 0.0045 · 39th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: EEF) at 11 Sept 2025, 08:14 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Erlang	OTP Package name: ssh pkg:otp/ssh?repository_url=https:%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ferlang%2Fotp&vcs_url=git%20https:%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ferlang%2Fotp.git	affected 3.0.1 to before * otp Other versions: unknown
Erlang	OTP Package name: erlang/otp https://github.com pkg:github/erlang/otp	affected 17.0 to before * otp affected 07b8f441ca711f9812fad9e9115bab3c3aa92f79 to before * git Other versions: unknown

Identifiers

CVE-2025-48040

CNA

EEF

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-400 · CWE-770

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.9	Medium	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (EEF)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0045, the 39th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 11 Sept 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-h7rg-6rjg-4cph vendor-advisoryrelated
cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2025-48040.html related
osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2025-48040 related
www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions version-scheme
github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10162 patch
github.com/erlang/otp/commit/7cd7abb7e19e16b027eaee6a54e1f6fbbe21181a patch
github.com/erlang/otp/commit/548f1295d86d0803da884db8685cc16d461d0d5a patch

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.