Erlang/OTP (Erlang OTP) Directory Traversal Vulnerability (Sep 2020) - Linux
🗓️ 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The vulnerability of the Erlang programming language lies in its lack of name restriction for path entries in the directory structure, which allows attackers to access confidential data. | 28 Mar 202300:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CVE-2020-25623 | 2 Oct 202016:54 | – | circl | |
| CVE-2020-25623 | 2 Oct 202012:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2020-25623 | 2 Oct 202012:00 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2020-25623 | 2 Oct 202012:00 | – | debiancve | |
| EUVD-2020-18300 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| CVE-2020-25623 | 2 Oct 202012:15 | – | nvd | |
| erlang27-27.1.3-1.1 on GA media (moderate) | 19 Nov 202500:00 | – | opensuse | |
| Erlang/OTP (Erlang OTP) Directory Traversal Vulnerability (Sep 2020) - Windows | 15 Sep 202500:00 | – | openvas | |
| DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25623 | 2 Oct 202012:15 | – | osv |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:erlang:erlang%2fotp";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.119103");
script_version("2025-09-16T05:38:45+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-16 05:38:45 +0000 (Tue, 16 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2025-09-15 13:03:57 +0000 (Mon, 15 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-10-09 15:50:15 +0000 (Fri, 09 Oct 2020)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-25623");
script_name("Erlang/OTP (Erlang OTP) Directory Traversal Vulnerability (Sep 2020) - Linux");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web Servers");
script_dependencies("gb_erlang_otp_ssh_banner_detect.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("erlang/otp/detected", "Host/runs_unixoide");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-23.1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-22.3.4.6");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Erlang/OTP (Erlang OTP) is prone to a directory traversal
vulnerability in the httpd module of the inets component.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"The vulnerability makes it possible to read arbitrary files which
the Erlang system has read access to with for example a specially prepared http request.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Erlang/OTP (Erlang OTP) versions starting from 22.3.1 and prior
to 22.3.4.6 and 23.0 only.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 22.3.4.6, 23.1 or later.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if( isnull( port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE ) ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, port:port, exit_no_version:TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if( version_in_range_exclusive( version:version, test_version_lo:"22.3.1", test_version_up:"22.3.4.6" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"22.3.4.6", install_path:location );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
if( version_is_equal( version:version, test_version:"23.0" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"23.1", install_path:location );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
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16 Sep 2025 00:00Current
6.9Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.9
CVSS 24.3
CVSS 3.17.5
EPSS0.03151