CVE-2026-48597

HIGH

Atom table exhaustion via untrusted URL scheme in Tesla.Adapter.Mint

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-tesla tesla allows denial of service via atom table exhaustion in Tesla.Adapter.Mint. Tesla.Adapter.Mint.open_conn/2 converts the URL scheme of every outgoing request to a BEAM atom via String.to_atom(uri.scheme) with no allow-list validation. BEAM atoms are never garbage-collected and the atom table is bounded (approximately 1,048,576 entries by default). An attacker who can influence the URL of a Tesla request — either via an application-level URL-forwarding feature (webhook, proxy, importer) or via a Location header returned by a server when Tesla.Middleware.FollowRedirects is in the pipeline — can mint one fresh permanent atom per request by varying the scheme string. After enough requests the atom table fills and the VM crashes, taking down the entire application. This issue affects tesla: from 1.3.0 before 1.18.3.

Scores

CVSS v4 8.2
EPSS 0.0030
EPSS Percentile 21.5%
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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (2)
elixir-tesla/tesla 1.3.0 - 1.18.3
elixir-tesla/tesla ccd0823d4ba37581a37d8f6108f9a81b263237ef - 4699c3cb3e2fd6078f99f45f11cf7466aeedbf0e
Published Jun 02, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 03, 2026