CVE-2026-48594
HIGHDescription
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.
How to fix
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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 38% of all known CVEs.
References
Related Vulnerabilities
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| CVE | Severity | CVSS | EPSS | Exploited | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-49975 | High | 7.5 | 31% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2026-21441 | High | 7.5 | 2.8% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2024-43499 | High | 7.5 | 2.6% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2024-28180 | Medium | 4.3 | 2.0% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2017-16129 | Medium | 5.9 | 1.8% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2022-29225 | High | 7.5 | 1.6% | - | Fix |
Common questions
How do I fix CVE-2026-48594?
Upgrade tesla to 1.18.3 or later.
Is CVE-2026-48594 being actively exploited?
Not that we know of. CVE-2026-48594 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 0.46% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 38% of all scored CVEs.
How severe is CVE-2026-48594?
CVE-2026-48594 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5, rated high. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.
What does CVE-2026-48594 affect?
Published advisories record a fix for tesla (NVD). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.
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