CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-48860

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.19%

9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs

Summary

Erlang/OTP ssl (inet_tls_dist) uses inet:sockname/1 instead of inet:peername/1 in check_ip/1, causing the LAN allowlist to be bypassed. Any holder of a CA-signed TLS certificate can bypass the LAN restriction and gain full Erlang node access.

Risk Assessment

An unauthorized external attacker can gain full control over an Erlang node, including remote code execution (RPC) and binary code loading.

Recommendation

Update OTP to version 29.0.2, 28.5.0.2, or 27.3.4.13 (or later).

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Original NVD description (English source)

Reliance on IP Address for Authentication vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssl (inet_tls_dist module) allows unauthenticated bypass of the distribution-over-TLS LAN allowlist. The inet_tls_dist:check_ip/1 function, which enforces a LAN allowlist for Erlang distribution over TLS, calls inet:sockname/1 instead of inet:peername/1 to obtain the peer's IP address. Because inet:sockname/1 returns the local socket address, both the local IP and the supposed peer IP resolve to the same value, causing the subnet mask comparison to always succeed regardless of the actual remote address. Any holder of a CA-signed TLS certificate can therefore bypass the LAN restriction and gain full Erlang distribution access to the node, including rpc:call/4 and code:load_binary/3. This vulnerability is associated with program file lib/ssl/src/inet_tls_dist.erl. This issue affects OTP from OTP 26.0 before OTP 29.0.2, OTP 28.5.0.2 and OTP 27.3.4.13, corresponding to ssl from 11.0 before 11.7.2, 11.6.0.2 and 11.2.12.9.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS