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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| elixir-tesla | tesla | 0.6.0 – < 1.18.3 | 1.18.3 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hex | tesla | >= 0.6.0, < 1.18.3 | 1.18.3 | EEF-CVE-2026-48594 |
References
- https://github.com/elixir-tesla/tesla/security/advisories/GHSA-mc85-72gr-vm9f vendor-advisory related
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-48594 related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-48594 related
- Introducing commit 5bd90bb in elixir-tesla/tesla related
- Fix commit 340f75b in elixir-tesla/tesla patch