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UBUNTU-CVE-2025-4748
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Erlang OTP (stdlib modules) allows Absolute Path Trave...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
erlang
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
erlang
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1+esm4"}]}]
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS
erlang
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:20.2.2+dfsg-1ubuntu2+esm4"}]}]
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
erlang
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:22.2.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.5+esm3"}]}]
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
erlang
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:24.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.5"}]}]
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
erlang
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1ubuntu4.4"}]}]
Ubuntu:25.10
erlang
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1"}]}]
References
- advisory ubuntu.com
- advisory ubuntu.com
- report ubuntu.com
- report cve.org
- report github.com
- report github.com
- report openwall.com
- report erlang.org