CVE-2026-48597

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

MEDIUM
5.9
CVSS Score
Published: June 2, 2026 at 07:08 PM UTC
Updated: September 24, 2026 at 09:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorTesla

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Severity
MEDIUM5.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
PoC

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

1.3.0 ≤ v < 1.18.31.3.0ccd0823d4ba37581a37d8f6108f9a81b263237ef
Vendor states this is fixed in 4699c3cb3e2fd6078f99f45f11cf7466aeedbf0e (fixed)
Affected range stops below 1.18.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-770

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