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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-48594 EEF-CVE-2026-48594EUVD-2026-34015GHSA-mc85-72gr-vm9f

Decompression bomb in Tesla.Middleware.DecompressResponse and Tesla.Middleware.Compression

Published Jun 2, 2026 · Updated Sep 24, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
elixir-tesla tesla 0.6.0 – < 1.18.3 1.18.3

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex tesla >= 0.6.0, < 1.18.3 1.18.3 EEF-CVE-2026-48594

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