CVE-2025-32433 is a critical-severity (CVSS 10) Missing Authentication vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-06-09) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. O3 Security confirms whether CVE-2025-32433 is actually reachable in your code before you act, and blocks exploitation at runtime until you patch.
Erlang/OTP SSH Vulnerable to Pre-Authentication RCE
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-06-09. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-06-30.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2025-32433.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2025-32433 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE sits: patch-first territory.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 368,770 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Description
Erlang/OTP is a set of libraries for the Erlang programming language. Prior to versions OTP-27.3.3, OTP-26.2.5.11, and OTP-25.3.2.20, a SSH server may allow an attacker to perform unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE). By exploiting a flaw in SSH protocol message handling, a malicious actor could gain unauthorized access to affected systems and execute arbitrary commands without valid credentials. This issue is patched in versions OTP-27.3.3, OTP-26.2.5.11, and OTP-25.3.2.20. A temporary workaround involves disabling the SSH server or to prevent access via firewall rules.
Research use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
ProDefense/CVE-2025-32433
CVE-2025-32433 https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-37
omer-efe-curkus/CVE-2025-32433-Erlang-OTP-SSH-RCE-PoC
The vulnerability allows an attacker with network access to an Erlang/OT
NiteeshPujari/CVE-2025-32433-PoC
CVE-2025-32433 PoC: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) in Erlan
0xPThree/cve-2025-32433
ekomsSavior/POC_CVE-2025-32433
m0usem0use/erl_mouse
python script to find vulnerable targets of CVE-2025-32433
exa-offsec/ssh_erlangotp_rce
Exploitation module for CVE-2025-32433 (Erlang/OTP)
joshuavanderpoll/cve-2025-32433
Go PoC for CVE-2025-32433 — unauthenticated RCE in Erlang/OTP SSH.
dollarboysushil/CVE-2025-32433-Erlang-OTP-SSH-Unauthenticated-RCE
PoC showing unauthenticated remote code execution in Erlang/OTP SSH serv
0x7556/CVE-2025-32433
CVE-2025-32433 Erlang/OTP SSH RCE Exploit SSH远程代码执行漏洞EXP
Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for the affected component. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.
Remediation status
No patched version of the affected component has shipped for CVE-2025-32433 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.
Mitigate without a patch
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 pinpoints whether CVE-2025-32433 is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.
Tailored to CVE-2025-32433. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2025-32433 in your dependencies?
O3 detects CVE-2025-32433 across dependencies and uses function-level reachability to confirm whether the vulnerable code path is actually reachable — not just present. No false positives.