CVE-2026-48598 PUBLISHED

CRLF injection in Tesla.Multipart disposition parameters allows multipart part header injection

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 22.05.2026 Published: 02.06.2026 Updated: 03.06.2026

Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output vulnerability in elixir-tesla tesla allows multipart part header injection via unescaped Content-Disposition parameter values.

Tesla.Multipart.part_headers_for_disposition/1 interpolates each disposition parameter as #{k}="#{v}" with no validation of CR (\r), LF (\n), or double-quote characters. The values come verbatim from the caller via Tesla.Multipart.add_field/4 (the name parameter), Tesla.Multipart.add_file/3, and Tesla.Multipart.add_file_content/4 (both the filename parameter and other disposition opts). A " in the value closes the quoted parameter early; a \r\n ends the Content-Disposition header line and starts a new part header (such as a forged Content-Type), or, after a second \r\n, ends the entire part header block and prepends bytes to the part body. The default-filename path in add_file/3 derives the filename via Path.basename/1, which does not strip CR or LF, so any application forwarding a partially-attacker-controlled file path inherits the same issue.

This issue affects tesla: from 0.8.0 before 1.18.3.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS Score: 2.1

Product Status

Vendor elixir-tesla
Product tesla
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.8.0 to 1.18.3 (excl.)
Vendor elixir-tesla
Product tesla
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 6ebfdb9abe9c6f119408045b933d82462decd351 to bb1a2c3da2775924d96e3db8e315dcc4d5d2246e (excl.)

Affected Configurations

The application must pass untrusted input into a disposition parameter of Tesla.Multipart.add_field/4, Tesla.Multipart.add_file/3, or Tesla.Multipart.add_file_content/4.

Workarounds

Validate disposition parameter values before passing them to Tesla.Multipart.add_field/4, Tesla.Multipart.add_file/3, or Tesla.Multipart.add_file_content/4, rejecting any value that contains \r, \n, or ".

Credits

  • Peter Ullrich finder
  • Yordis Prieto remediation developer
  • Jonatan Männchen analyst

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-105 HTTP Request Splitting