Security advisory

{
  "id": "b5476773c4a1e0886a6498025c1911e32072ac5a964fa4d93b22ff0ccf7fb047",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-25623",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-25623",
    "summary": "Erlang/OTP 22.3.x before 22.3.4.6 and 23.x before 23.1 allows Directory Traversal. An attacker can send a crafted HTTP request to read arbitrary files, if httpd in the inets application is used.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-25623",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-25623",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-25623"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/erlang/otp",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "7339e8f745c9ae4cc71e8dc09be37e3116249392"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "1b5dce9313e29c320593b3bba5ca020a23019706"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "22.3.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "22.3.4.6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "23.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "23.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "1b5dce9313e29c320593b3bba5ca020a23019706"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
                    "original_tag": "OTP-23.1"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "OTP-22.3.4",
            "OTP-23.0",
            "OTP-21.0",
            "OTP-22.0",
            "OTP-22.3.4.4",
            "OTP-22.3.4.5",
            "OTP-22.3.4.3",
            "OTP-22.3",
            "OTP-22.3.4.2",
            "OTP-22.3.4.1",
            "OTP-22.3.3",
            "OTP-22.3.2",
            "OTP-23.0-rc3",
            "OTP-22.3.1",
            "OTP-23.0-rc2",
            "OTP-23.0-rc1",
            "OTP-20.0",
            "OTP-22.2",
            "OTP-22.1",
            "OTP-22.0-rc3",
            "OTP-22.0-rc2",
            "OTP-22.0-rc1",
            "OTP-19.0",
            "OTP-21.0-rc2",
            "OTP-18.0",
            "OTP-21.0-rc1",
            "OTP-17.0",
            "OTP-20.0-rc2",
            "OTP-20.0-rc1",
            "OTP-19.0-rc2",
            "OTP-19.0-rc1",
            "OTP_R16B",
            "OTP-18.0-rc1",
            "OTP_17.0-rc2",
            "OTP_17.0-rc1",
            "OTP_R13B03",
            "OTP_R16A_RELEASE_CANDIDATE",
            "OTP_R14B03",
            "OTP_R15B",
            "OTP_R15A",
            "OTP_R14B02",
            "OTP_R14B01",
            "OTP_R14B",
            "OTP_R13B04",
            "OTP_R14A"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-25623.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:53.189125374Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-23.1",
        "https://www.erlang.org/downloads",
        "https://www.erlang.org/news"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-25623",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384001,
  "published_at": "2020-10-02T12:15:12.16+00:00"
}