erlang: Erlang OTP public_key: Certificate chain forgery via improper trust chain validation

A flaw was found in Erlang OTP's publickey module. This vulnerability CWE-295, related to improper certificate validation, allows a non-Certificate Authority CA certificate to be accepted as an intermediate issuer. A remote attacker, holding an end-entity certificate issued by a trusted CA, can...

erlang: Erlang OTP public_key: Certificate validation bypass allows hostname spoofing

A flaw was found in Erlang OTP publickey. This improper certificate validation vulnerability allows a subordinate Certificate Authority CA with restricted DNS nameConstraints to bypass these restrictions. By issuing a leaf certificate that lacks a Subject Alternative Name SAN but contains a craft...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Erlang

Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests: The “HTTP Request Smuggling” vulnerability in Erlang OTP inets httpd module allows for HTTP requests to be disguised. This vulnerability is associated with the program file lib/inets/src/httpserver/httpdrequest.erl and the routine...

Erlang/OTP 17.0 < 27.3.4.15 / 28.0 < 28.5.0.4 / 29.0 < 29.0.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Erlang/OTP installed on the remote host is 17.0 prior to 27.3.4.15, 28.0 prior to 28.5.0.4, or 29.0 prior to 29.0.4. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - The Erlang/OTP ssl TLS 1.2 and earlier and DTLS client does not verify that the cipher suite selected by th...

Erlang/OTP 26.2 < 27.3.4.15 / 28.0 < 28.5.0.4 / 29.0 < 29.0.4 Policy Tree DoS (CVE-2026-59251)

The version of Erlang/OTP installed on the remote host is 26.2 prior to 27.3.4.15, 28.0 prior to 28.5.0.4, or 29.0 prior to 29.0.4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability: - Allocation of resources without limits in Erlang/OTP publickey certificate path validation allows a remote...

SUSE CVE-2026-59251

Allocation of resources without limits in Erlang/OTP publickey certificate path validation allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service by sending a crafted X.509 certificate chain during the TLS handshake. During RFC 5280 policy processing in publickey:pkixpathvalidation/3...

CVE-2026-47078

A flaw was found in the Erlang OTP stdlib zip module. The zip:unzip and zip:extract functions, which handle archive extraction, are vulnerable to a relative path traversal attack. A remote attacker could craft a malicious zip archive containing specially formed entry names. When processed, this...

CVE-2026-55737

A flaw was found in Erlang OTP. A remote attacker can exploit a vulnerability in the Erlang external term format ETF decoder by providing a specially crafted binary to the binarytoterm/1 function. This manipulation of data types during processing can corrupt the system's memory, leading to an...

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...

erlang/otp: Erlang/OTP ssl client: Authentication bypass via unoffered anonymous cipher suite acceptance

A flaw was found in the Erlang/OTP ssl client. This vulnerability allows an on-path attacker to bypass server authentication in TLS 1.2 and earlier and DTLS connections. By tricking the client into accepting an unoffered anonymous cipher suite, the attacker can complete the handshake without a...

FreeBSD : Erlang/OTP -- denial of service via exponential certificate policy tree growth (445d674f-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 445d674f-89e1-11f1-b35c-4c526214c986 advisory. https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-622p-qfh6-c352 reports: A remote attacker can...

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-2026-54890

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Integer Underflow Wrap or Wraparound vulnerability in erlang otp erlang/otp erts modules, erlang otp erts erts modules allows Forced Integer Overflow, Excessive...

FreeBSD : Erlang/OTP -- (D)TLS-1.2 server certificate verification bypass (445c61c0-89e1-11f1-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 445c61c0-89e1-11f1-b35c-4c526214c986 advisory. https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-c6cw-pr89-w882 reports: The OTP TLS/DTLS client...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-59251

Allocation of resources without limits in Erlang/OTP publickey certificate path validation allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service by sending a crafted X.509 certificate chain during the TLS handshake. During RFC 5280 policy processing in publickey:pkixpathvalidation/3...

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-2026-54890

CVE-2026-54890 describes an Integer Underflow in the BEAM VM’s ETF decoder: the BIT_BINARY_EXT (tag 77) handler accepts an encoding with length and trailing-bits both zero, causing the bitstring size calculation to underflow and produce a ~2^64 value, which is then used as a memory allocation siz...

CVE-2026-54890

Integer Underflow Wrap or Wraparound vulnerability in erlang otp erlang/otp erts modules, erlang otp erts erts modules allows Forced Integer Overflow, Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files erts/emulator/beam/external.c, emulator/beam/external.c. The BITBINARYEX...

CVE-2026-59251 Denial of service via exponential certificate policy tree growth in path validation

Allocation of resources without limits in Erlang/OTP publickey certificate path validation allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service by sending a crafted X.509 certificate chain during the TLS handshake. During RFC 5280 policy processing in publickey:pkixpathvalidation/3...

CVE-2026-59251

Summary: CVE-2026-59251 is a denial-of-service in Erlang/OTP public_key certificate path validation caused by unbounded growth of the certificate policy tree during RFC 5280 policy processing. The vulnerability occurs when validating TLS certificates; a chain with many policies per certificate ca...