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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-48860 (CVE-2026-48860)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-06-10 16:17 – Updated: 2026-10-06 20:53 – Source website

Details

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 27.3.4.13, OTP 28.5.0.2, and OTP 29.0.2, corresponding to ssl from 11.0 before 11.2.12.9, 11.6.0.2, and 11.7.2.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-48860	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48860	REPORT
	https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories…	REPORT
	https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-48860.html	REPORT
	https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-48860	REPORT

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  "details": "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\u0027s 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\u00a026.0 before OTP\u00a027.3.4.13, OTP\u00a028.5.0.2, and OTP\u00a029.0.2, corresponding to ssl from 11.0 before 11.2.12.9, 11.6.0.2, and 11.7.2.",
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CVE-2026-48860 (GCVE-0-2026-48860)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-10 14:35 – Updated: 2026-09-24 20:39

Title

Distribution-over-TLS LAN allowlist silently bypassed due to sockname/peername confusion in inet_tls_dist

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-06-10 16:23 UTC

CWE

CWE-1025 - Comparison Using Wrong Factors
CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Assigner

EEF mitre root Scorecard

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories…	vendor-advisoryrelated
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-48860.html	related
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-48860	related
https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o…	x_version-scheme
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/7a08c5507862…	related
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/0209a6df65d6…	patch

Impacted products

3 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Erlang	OTP	Affected: 26.0 , < * (otp) cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp::::::::
Erlang	OTP	Affected: 11.0 , < * (otp) cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp::::::::
Erlang	OTP	Affected: 7a08c5507862a7011568506d0c17b1fdef30bee4 , < 0209a6df65d605552b378273027b3968b35f26b4 (git) cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp::::::::

Date Public

2026-06-10 14:35

Credits

Lukas Backström Ingela Anderton Andin Raimo Niskanen Jakub Witczak

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