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Description
Tesla.Middleware.FollowRedirects strips security-sensitive headers on cross-origin redirects using a case-sensitive string comparison against a lowercase filter list (@filter_headers ["authorization", "host"]). HTTP header names are case-insensitive per RFC 7230, but Tesla preserves header keys verbatim as supplied by the caller without normalizing case. A header set as {"Authorization", "Bearer …"} (the RFC 7235 canonical casing used by virtually all HTTP libraries and documentation) does not match the lowercase filter entry and is forwarded to the redirect destination. An attacker who can control or influence a Location: response seen by the client (via their own endpoint, a redirect-open upstream, or a compromised origin) receives the bearer token or other Authorization material on the cross-origin request.
This issue affects tesla: from 1.4.0 before 1.18.3.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-178
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Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-267
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Leverage Alternate Encoding
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / tesla Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / elixir-tesla/tesla Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Workarounds
Configurations
References
GHSA-9m9w-gxf7-rh8m ↗
vendor-advisory
EEF-CVE-2026-48595 ↗
related
Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N