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.
Published: 2026-06-02
Score: 8.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:30:00 +0000

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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.
Title Decompression bomb in Tesla.Middleware.DecompressResponse and Tesla.Middleware.Compression
First Time appeared Elixir-tesla
Elixir-tesla tesla
Weaknesses CWE-409
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:elixir-tesla:tesla:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Elixir-tesla
Elixir-tesla tesla
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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Elixir-tesla Tesla
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: EEF

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-04T04:45:31.475Z

Reserved: 2026-05-22T09:36:56.834Z

Link: CVE-2026-48594

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-06-03T14:39:40.105Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-06-02T20:16:38.193

Modified: 2026-06-04T15:42:22.947

Link: CVE-2026-48594

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Updated: 2026-06-03T04:30:05Z

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