VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2026-48860

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.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 0.19%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.19%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

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.

CVSS 4.0: 7.5 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS: 0.19% probability · 9th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-863, CWE-1025
Affected: erlang/erlang\/otp · erlang/erlang\/ssl
Source: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db

References

https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-48860.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/0209a6df65d605552b378273027b3968b35f26b4Patch
https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-gp7x-mfv6-52cvVendor Advisory
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-48860Third Party Advisory
https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versionsProduct

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.