CVE-2025-4748: Erlang OTP

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Erlang OTP: from 2.0; from 17.0

Published 2025-06-16. Last modified 2026-07-24.