7.5

CVE-2020-25623: erlang erlang\/otp Path Traversal

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2020-25623DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25623
Published 02-10-2020Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-25623 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Path Traversal vulnerability in erlang erlang\/otp. EPSS estimates a 3.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.15%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10740-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15740-1

Timeline

  1. 02-10-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Erlang/OTP 22.3.x before 22.3.4.6 and 23.x before 23.1 allows Directory Traversal. An attacker can send a crafted HTTP request to read arbitrary files, if httpd in the inets application is used.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

3.15%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

88%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.15% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
3.15%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • erlang< 1:23.1+dfsg-1
Erlang1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • erlang< 1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1 | < 1:20.2.2+dfsg-1ubuntu2 | < 1:22.2.7+dfsg-1

3 vendors · 3 products

References

6 links