Tesla has decompression bomb on response body — GHSA-MC85-72GR-VM9F

Summary

### Summary Any Tesla client pipeline that includes `Tesla.Middleware.DecompressResponse` or `Tesla.Middleware.Compression` eagerly decompresses HTTP response bodies with no size limit. A server under attacker control (or reached via a redirect) can return a tiny gzip-encoded payload that expands into gigabytes of BEAM heap, crashing or freezing the calling process. Stacking multiple `content-encoding` tokens…

Timeline

Published by source

2026-07-10

Risk context

• Reported severity or threat level: high.
• Reported CVSS score: 8.2 out of 10.
• Reported EPSS value: 0.00329.
• Review exposure for the affected product or family: erlang: tesla.

Product

erlang: tesla

What to do

General, cautious steps (verify details in the official source):

• Prioritize patching or mitigation immediately (treat as actively risky).
• Identify affected product versions in your inventory and verify whether you are impacted.
• Apply vendor patches/updates or recommended mitigations as soon as available.
• Read the official advisory for exact affected versions and remediation steps.

Official advisory

• Read the official source
• CVE Record
• NVD

Evidence and provenance

Canonical advisory ID

GHSA-MC85-72GR-VM9F

Source

GitHub

Vendor

GitHub

Published by source

2026-07-10

Last source activity

2026-07-10

Additional identifiers

CVE-2026-48594

Curated by

hlukh.ch

Related advisories and connections

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