CVE-2026-42792

A flaw was found in Erlang OTP's Erlang Port Mapper Daemon epmd. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit an improper handling of exceptional conditions in the doaccept function. By exhausting connection slots through holding numerous TCP connections open and periodically sending data, the...

erlang-otp: epmd: Erlang OTP epmd: Remote Denial of Service via connection exhaustion

A flaw was found in Erlang OTP's Erlang Port Mapper Daemon epmd. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit an improper handling of exceptional conditions in the doaccept function. By exhausting connection slots through holding numerous TCP connections open and periodically sending data, the...

FreeBSD : Erlang/OTP -- denial of service in epmd (445e3324-89e1-11f1-b35c-4c526214c986)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 445e3324-89e1-11f1-b35c-4c526214c986 advisory. The Erlang/OTP team reports: Mitigated a denial of service attack in epmd. Tenable has extracted the...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-42792

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts epmd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently terminate the Erlang...

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

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...

EUVD-2026-49316

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

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

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...

PT-2026-64978

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 exit when...

Erlang/OTP -- denial of service in epmd

The Erlang/OTP team reports: Mitigated a denial of service attack in epmd...

Aeternity: Remote Code Execution in epoch via epmd

Summary: Remote Code Execution in epoch via exposed erlang ports epmd Description: Known Erlang cookie allows connecting to other Erlang nodes. Contrary to assumptions from https://github.com/aeternity/aetmodel/blob/master/ThreatModel.md, starting node with -sname does not prevent remote...