CVE-2026-49759
HighCVSS 8.2Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk57th percentile - higher than 57% of all known CVEs
Summary
In Erlang OTP, the erts driver (inet_drv) contains a stack-based buffer overflow in sctp_parse_error_chunk, which writes cause codes into a fixed-size array without bounds checking. An unauthenticated remote attacker with an established SCTP association can send a crafted SCTP ERROR chunk and crash the BEAM VM. Limited leakage of VM memory fragments is also possible.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can remotely cause denial of service by crashing the BEAM VM, leading to application unavailability. The memory disclosure scope is limited because the data is already readable by the VM user.
Recommendation
Update Erlang OTP to version 27.3.4.13, 28.5.0.2, or 29.0.2 (erts 15.2.7.9, 16.4.0.2, 17.0.2 respectively). Restrict access to SCTP ports from untrusted networks.
Other vulnerabilities in Erlang OTP
See all- CVE-2026-94200High
Erlang OTP ssl (tls_handshake_1_3, ssl_handshake and tls_client_ticket_store modules) has an improper validation of consistency within input. A malicious TLS 1.3 server can cause a denial of service of the ssl application on the client node by sending a NewSessionTicket message with invalid extensions.
- CVE-2026-105236Medium
Improper certificate validation in the ssl application in Erlang/OTP allows a client holding a certificate trusted by one SNI virtual host to authenticate to a second SNI virtual host on the same listener by resuming its TLS 1.2 session there. A server serving multiple SNI names from one listen socket keeps one shared session cache and does not bind a cached session to the SNI name or client trust policy that established it. This affects OTP from 18.0 before 27.3.4.19, 28.5.0.8, and 29.1.2.
- CVE-2026-28808Critical
An incorrect authorization vulnerability in Erlang OTP (inets modules) allows unauthenticated access to CGI scripts protected by directory rules when served via script_alias. The path mismatch between access control evaluation and script execution allows bypassing protections.
- CVE-2026-23941Critical
In Erlang OTP (inets httpd module), an HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability exists. The server does not reject or normalize duplicate Content-Length headers. The first value is used, while common proxies use the last, enabling front-end/back-end desynchronization and injection of attacker-controlled bytes as the start of the next request.
- CVE-2025-32433CriticalActively exploited
Erlang/OTP prior to versions OTP-27.3.3, OTP-26.2.5.11, and OTP-25.3.2.20 contains a vulnerability in the SSH server that may allow an attacker to perform unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE). By exploiting a flaw in SSH protocol message handling, a malicious actor could gain unauthorized access and execute arbitrary commands without valid credentials.
- CVE-2016-10253Critical
An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 18.x related to the generation of compiled regular expressions, which is vulnerable to a heap overflow. Regular expressions using a malformed extpattern can indirectly specify an offset used as an array index.
- CVE-2026-75538High
In Erlang/OTP, when using the inet driver with {packet,4} mode, an attacker connecting to an open TCP port can exploit a signed overflow in packet length calculation, potentially overflowing the receive buffer and crashing the BEAM VM.
- CVE-2026-74835High
The httpd HTTP server in the inets application fails to enforce a configured body-size limit on chunked requests. This may allow sending very large requests, potentially leading to server overload.
- CVE-2026-73812High
The check_header/3 function in httpd rejects duplicate Content-Length but does not check for the co-presence of Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length, which can lead to request smuggling desynchronization between front-end and back-end.
- CVE-2026-73276High
Gracefulness code ignored cases that should be rejected, resulting in possible HTTP Request Smuggling opportunities.
Original NVD description (English source)
Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts (inet_drv) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the BEAM VM by sending a crafted SCTP ERROR chunk. The sctp_parse_error_chunk function in erts/emulator/drivers/common/inet_drv.c parses SCTP ERROR chunks and writes cause codes into a fixed-size stack-allocated ErlDrvTermData spec[] array without checking bounds. A remote attacker who has established an SCTP association to a listening port can send a single crafted SCTP ERROR chunk containing enough cause codes to overflow the stack buffer, crashing the VM. The attacker can only write 16-bit values interleaved with a fixed tag, so the overflow does not provide a controlled return address, limiting exploitation to Denial of Service. A crafted SCTP ERROR chunk may also leak bits and pieces of Erlang VM memory into the received error packet observed by the Erlang process. Such data is already readable by the user running the Erlang VM, so the disclosure scope is limited. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.13, OTP 28.5.0.2, and OTP 29.0.2, corresponding to erts from 6.0 before 15.2.7.9, 16.4.0.2, and 17.0.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to erts before 6.0, is affected is unknown.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS