epmd permanent DoS via EMFILE on accept(2) in erts

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SUSE CVE-2026-42792

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts epmd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently terminate the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon epmd via connection slot exhaustion. The doaccept function in erts/epmd/src/epmdsrv.c calls epmdcleanupexit when accep...

CVE-2026-42792

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts epmd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently terminate the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon epmd via connection slot exhaustion. The doaccept function in erts/epmd/src/epmdsrv.c calls epmdcleanupexit when accep...

CVE-2026-42792

CVE-2026-42792 (epmd DoS) : The mis-handling of EMFILE/ENFILE in erts/epmd/src/epmd_srv.c allows unauthenticated remote attackers to permanently terminate the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon (epmd) by exhausting per-process/system file descriptor slots. The do_accept path calls epmd_cleanup_exit() on t...

EEF-CVE-2026-42792 epmd permanent DoS via EMFILE on accept(2) in erts

Summary Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts epmd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently terminate the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon epmd via connection slot exhaustion. The do\accept function in erts/epmd/src/epmd\srv.c calls epmd\cleanup\exi...

CVE-2026-42792

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts epmd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently terminate the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon epmd via connection slot exhaustion. The doaccept function in erts/epmd/src/epmdsrv.c calls epmdcleanupexit when accep...

Erlang Port Mapper Daemon (epmd) Detection

Detection of Erlang Port Mapper Daemon epmd. Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Erlang - Port Mapper Daemon Cookie Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Erlang Port Mapper Daemon Cookie RCE', 'Description' = %q The erlang port mapper daemon is used to coordinate distributed erlang instances. Shoul...

Erlang Port Mapper Daemon Cookie Remote Code Execution Exploit

The erlang port mapper daemon is used to coordinate distributed erlang instances. Should an attacker get the authentication cookie, remote code execution is trivial. Usually, this cookie is named ".erlang.cookie" and varies on location. This module requires Metasploit:...

Erlang Port Mapper Daemon Detection

The remote host is running Erlang Port Mapper Daemon, which acts as a name server on all hosts involved in distributed Erlang computations. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid62351; scriptversion"1.4";...

epmd-info NSE Script

Connects to Erlang Port Mapper Daemon epmd and retrieves a list of nodes with their respective port numbers. Example Usage nmap -p 4369 --script epmd-info Script Output PORT STATE SERVICE 4369/tcp open epmd | epmd-info.nse: | epmdport: 4369 | nodes: | rabbit: 36804 | ejabberd: 46540 Requires nmap...

Erlang Port Mapper Daemon Cookie RCE

The erlang port mapper daemon is used to coordinate distributed erlang instances. Should an attacker get the authentication cookie RCE is trivial. Usually, this cookie is named ".erlang.cookie" and varies on location. Module Options msf use exploit/multi/misc/erlang/cookierce msf undefinedcookier...