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erlang — security advisory
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.
- Products
- erlang
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:23.1+dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-25623
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25623
erlang
Fixed versions: 1:23.1+dfsg-1
erlang
Fixed versions: 1:23.1+dfsg-1
erlang
Fixed versions: 1:23.1+dfsg-1
Complete source record
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