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...

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...

CVE-2026-42792

CVE-2026-42792 affects Erlang OTP’s epmd. The issue arises in erts/epmd/src/epmd_srv.c: when accept(2) returns EMFILE or ENFILE, epmd_cleanup_exit() is called instead of treating the condition as recoverable. An attacker can exhaust epmd’s file descriptor slots by establishing many TCP connection...

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 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 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 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. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source...

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...