Erlang/OTP (Erlang OTP) < 23.2.3 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Erlang/OTP Erlang OTP is prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the erts component. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

Photon OS 1.0: Erlang PHSA-2021-1.0-0414

An update of the erlang package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2021-1.0-0414. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc...

Photon OS 3.0: Erlang PHSA-2021-3.0-0235

An update of the erlang package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2021-3.0-0235. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc...

CVE-2021-29221

CVE-2021-29221 concerns Erlang/OTP on Windows prior to 23.2.3. A local privilege escalation is possible by adding files to the installation directory under unsafe filesystem permissions, potentially hijacking other users’ Erlang processes or coercing the erlsrv.exe service to execute arbitrary co...