CVE-2025-26618

Description

Erlang is a programming language and runtime system for building massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. OTP is a set of Erlang libraries, which consists of the Erlang runtime system, a number of ready-to-use components mainly written in Erlang. Packet size is not verified properly for SFTP packets. As a result when multiple SSH packets (conforming to max SSH packet size) are received by ssh, they might be combined into an SFTP packet which will exceed the max allowed packet size and potentially cause large amount of memory to be allocated. Note that situation described above can only happen for successfully authenticated users after completing the SSH handshake. This issue has been patched in OTP versions 27.2.4, 26.2.5.9, and 25.3.2.18. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Weakness Type (CWE)

CWE-789 CWE-789

References

Other References

https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/0ed2573cbd55c92e9125c9dc70fa1ca7fed82872 https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-78cv-45vx-q6fr https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00028.html https://erlang.org/download/OTP-27.2.4.README.md

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2025-26618? +

Erlang is a programming language and runtime system for building massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. OTP is a set of Erlang libraries, which consists of the Erlang runtime system, a number of ready-to-use components mainly written in Erlang. Packet size is not verified properly for SFTP packets. As a result when multiple SSH packets (conforming to max SSH packet size) are received by ssh, they might be combined into an SFTP packet which will exceed the max allowed packet size and potentially cause large amount of memory to be allocated. Note that situation described above can only happen for successfully authenticated users after completing the SSH handshake. This issue has been patched in OTP versions 27.2.4, 26.2.5.9, and 25.3.2.18. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

How do I check if I'm vulnerable to CVE-2025-26618? +

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