Medium severity · published Jun 10, 2026
CVE-2026-48858
ftp client PASV response IP not validated against control peer, enabling SSRF and FTP bounce attacks
6.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ftp (ftp_internal module) allows FTP bounce attacks and SSRF via an unvalidated PASV response IP address.
The ftp_internal:handle_ctrl_result/2 PASV handler (mode=passive, ipfamily=inet, ftp_extension=false) extracts the IP address from the server's 227 response and passes it directly to gen_tcp:connect/4 without validating it against the control connection peer address. The adjacent EPSV handlers correctly call peername(CSock) to derive the IP from the control connection, but the PASV handler does not. A malicious or compromised FTP server can redirect the client's data connection to an arbitrary internal host and port. On read operations (ftp:ls/1,2, ftp:nlist/1,2, ftp:recv/2,3), data from the redirected target is returned to the caller. On write operations (ftp:send/2,3, ftp:append/2,3), file content is sent to the redirected target. This enables SSRF against internal hosts, cloud metadata endpoints, and FTP bounce attacks against third-party hosts.
The vulnerable path is the default configuration (mode=passive, ipfamily=inet, ftp_extension=false). RFC 2577 section 3 explicitly recommends validating the PASV response IP against the control connection peer.
The ftp application is deprecated and scheduled for removal in OTP-30.
This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/inets/src/ftp/ftp_internal.erl (inets 5.10.4 through 6.5, OTP 17.4 through 20.3) and lib/ftp/src/ftp_internal.erl (ftp 1.0 and later, OTP 21.0 and later).
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.4 before OTP 29.0.2, OTP 28.5.0.2 and OTP 27.3.4.13, corresponding to inets from 5.10.4 before 7.0 and ftp from 1.0 before 1.2.6, 1.2.4.1 and 1.2.3.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 14% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OT
OTP · Erlang
5.10.4 before 7.0; 1.0; 17.4; be95772ee1fcfe71045ef070130bea7a910b81e3 · source: vendor
ER
Erlang/inets · Erlang
5.10.4 before 7.0 · source: NVD
ER
Erlang/otp · Erlang
17.4 before 27.3.4.13; 28.0 before 28.5.0.2; 29.0 before 29.0.2 · source: NVD
FT
Ftp · Erlang
1.0 before 1.2.3.1; 1.2.4 before 1.2.4.1; 1.2.5 before 1.2.6 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48858
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48858
Mitigation
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-48858.html
Patch
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/2691a806231ffd0490a8a9e20500dec0c7e73727
Patch
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/521bcfa24407ee8cb5614823cf905c37ea3aa605
Mitigation
https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-24cv-hwgr-37fq
Mitigation
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-48858
Product
https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions
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