FKIE_CVE-2026-48594

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-02 20:16 - Updated: 2026-09-24 21:17
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in elixir-tesla tesla allows a denial of service via decompression bomb in HTTP response bodies. When Tesla.Middleware.DecompressResponse or Tesla.Middleware.Compression is included in a Tesla middleware pipeline, HTTP response bodies are decompressed eagerly with no size limit. The decompress_body/2 function in lib/tesla/middleware/compression.ex passes the entire response body to :zlib.gunzip/1 or :zlib.unzip/1 without any cap on the output size. Additionally, compression_algorithms/1 splits the content-encoding header on commas and decompress_body/2 recurses once per token, applying a decompression pass on each iteration. A server advertising content-encoding: gzip, gzip, gzip, gzip causes four recursive decompression passes, yielding exponential amplification: each gzip layer can expand its input roughly 1000x, so a payload of a few hundred bytes on the wire inflates to gigabytes of BEAM heap, exhausting memory and crashing or freezing the calling process. This issue affects tesla: from 0.6.0 before 1.18.3.
References
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-48594.htmlThird Party Advisory
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://github.com/elixir-tesla/tesla/commit/340f75b5d191dc747ef7ac6365bd002d1cd55a9dPatch
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://github.com/elixir-tesla/tesla/commit/5bd90bb5cf0d15e375edc2a66fa322292940fce2
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://github.com/elixir-tesla/tesla/security/advisories/GHSA-mc85-72gr-vm9fExploit, Vendor Advisory
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-48594Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/elixir-tesla/tesla/security/advisories/GHSA-mc85-72gr-vm9fExploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
elixir-tesla tesla *
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