CVE-2025-4748

Publication date 16 June 2025

Last updated 21 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
erlang 25.04 plucky
Fixed 1:27.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1ubuntu4.4
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:24.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.5
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Patch details

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