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CVE-2026-48594: Elixir-Tesla Tesla Security Vulnerability (CVSS 8.2)

CVE-2026-48594 is a high severity security vulnerability in Elixir-Tesla Tesla with a CVSS score of 8.2. Apply the vendor fix and confirm exposure on internet facing and business critical assets first.

Last updated: Sep 24, 2026

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Direct answer

CVE-2026-48594 is a high severity security vulnerability in Elixir-Tesla Tesla with a CVSS score of 8.2. Apply the vendor fix and confirm exposure on internet facing and business critical assets first.

Risk scores

CVSS base score
8.2HIGH
EPSS probability
0.70%
Higher than 52 percent of all CVEs
CISA KEV
Not listed
CVSS metricWhat it means
Attack vector (AV:N)Network: reachable remotely
Attack complexity (AC:L)Low complexity
Attack requirements (AT:P)Attack requirements present
Privileges required (PR:N)No privileges required
User interaction (UI:N)No user interaction
Confidentiality (VC:N)No confidentiality impact
Integrity (VI:N)No integrity impact
Availability (VA:H)High availability impact

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

About Elixir-Tesla Tesla

CVE-2026-48594 affects Elixir-Tesla Tesla, a product from Elixir-Tesla. Before acting, confirm where Elixir-Tesla Tesla runs in your estate, who owns it and whether it is reachable from the internet, because exposure decides real risk more than the score alone.

What the flaw is

In plain terms: 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.

Based on its CVSS vector, the flaw can be reached over the network, needs no login, and needs no user interaction. Apply the vendor fix and confirm exposure on internet facing and business critical assets first.

Affected versions and timeline

FieldDetail
ProductElixir-Tesla Tesla
Affected versionsTesla from 0.6.0 before 1.18.3
PublishedJun 2, 2026
Last modifiedSep 24, 2026
Added to CISA KEVNot listed
Assigning CNA6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db

How to detect it

  • Inventory every instance of Elixir-Tesla Tesla and record the running version against the affected range above.
  • Check external attack surface scans for internet facing instances of the component.
  • Review logs on affected systems for unusual requests, errors or new processes around the vulnerable function.
  • Confirm with an authenticated vulnerability scan once your scanner has a check for this CVE.

How to fix it

  • Apply the fixed version of Elixir-Tesla Tesla named in the vendor advisory.
  • If patching must wait, restrict network access to the affected service and put it behind authentication or a web application firewall rule.
  • Rescan after the change to prove the exposure is gone, then close the ticket.

CTEM action plan

CTEM stageWhat to do for this CVE
ScopeAdd every business service that depends on Elixir-Tesla Tesla to the current CTEM cycle.
DiscoverFind all instances, including shadow and cloud deployments, and record versions and exposure.
PrioritizeRank using EPSS and CVSS together with asset exposure and business impact.
ValidateConfirm the flaw is reachable and exploitable in your environment and that compensating controls work.
MobilizeAssign the fix to the asset owner with a due date matched to the priority, then verify closure.

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Frequently asked questions

CVE-2026-48594 is a high severity security vulnerability in Elixir-Tesla Tesla with a CVSS score of 8.2. Apply the vendor fix and confirm exposure on internet facing and business critical assets first.

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