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CVE-2025-4748

Absolute path traversal in zip:unzip/1,2

Published: Jun 16, 2025Updated: Jul 4, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-22
NVD MITRE
4.4CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 87.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

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 until OTP 28.0.1, OTP 27.3.4.1 and OTP 26.2.5.13, corresponding to stdlib from 2.0 until 7.0.1, 6.2.2.1 and 5.2.3.4.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:LC:NI:LA:L
Exploitability
AV:LAccess Vector
Local
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:LIntegrity
L
A:LAvailability
L
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Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected Products

OTPErlang
LibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
Debian GNU/LinuxСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
РЕД ОСООО «Ред Софт»
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Suse Linux Enterprise ServerNovell Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP ApplicationsNovell Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
erlangoss-projectOSS Librariesaka erlang/otp, otp, erlang/ssh
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf
ооо «ред софт»commercialRUOperating Systemsaka red soft
novell inc.commercialUSOperating Systems
and 5 more affected products View all →

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
Workaround Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Collection
Discovery
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References

https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-9g37-pgj9-wrhc
github.com
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2025-4748.html
cna.erlef.org
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2025-4748
osv.dev
and 11 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Jun 16, 2025
Last Updated
Jul 4, 2025

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