Absolute path traversal in zip:unzip/1,2
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 87% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L
Affected products
Erlang · OTPReferences
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2025-4748.htmlhttps://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/578d4001575aa7647ea1efd4b2b7e3afadcc99a5https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/5a55feec10c9b69189d56723d8f237afa58d5d4fhttps://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/ba2f2bc5f45fcfd2d6201ba07990a678bbf4cc8fhttps://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/9941https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-9g37-pgj9-wrhchttps://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2025-4748https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versionshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/16/5