CVE-2025-4748
Absolute path traversal in zip:unzip/1,2
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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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/578d4001575aa7647ea1efd4b2b7e3afadcc99a5
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/5a55feec10c9b69189d56723d8f237afa58d5d4f
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/ba2f2bc5f45fcfd2d6201ba07990a678bbf4cc8f
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/9941
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-9g37-pgj9-wrhc
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