CVE-2025-4748

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Published 2025-06-16 · Modified 2026-05-27

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

4.8

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

VIR risk

5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`28.0.1-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:23.2.6+dfsg-1+deb11u3`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u2`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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