Path Traversal in Erlang Otp
CVE-2025-4748
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Erlang OTP (stdlib modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal, File Manipulation. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/stdlib/src/zip.erl and program routines zip:unzip/1, zip:unzip/2, zip:extract/1, zip:extract/2 unless the memory option is passed. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 28.0.1, OTP 27.3.4.1 and OTP 26.2.5.13, corresponding to stdlib from 2.0 before 7.0.1, 6.2.2.1 and 5.2.3.4.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
EPSS: 0.002 (13.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Erlang Otp — versions 2.0, 17.0, 07b8f441ca711f9812fad9e9115bab3c3aa92f79
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db (related, vendor-advisory)
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db (related)
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db (related)
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db (x_version-scheme)
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db (patch)
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db (patch)
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db (patch)
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db (patch)
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2025-4748?
- CVE-2025-4748 is a vulnerability in Erlang Otp, classified under Path Traversal. Published 2025-06-16.
- Is CVE-2025-4748 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.