CVE-2023-43810

HIGH

OpenTelemetry < 0.41b0 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via HTTP Method Label

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel for short, is a vendor-neutral open-source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, logs. Autoinstrumentation out of the box adds the label `http_method` that has unbound cardinality. It leads to the server's potential memory exhaustion when many malicious requests are sent. HTTP method for requests can be easily set by an attacker to be random and long. In order to be affected program has to be instrumented for HTTP handlers and does not filter any unknown HTTP methods on the level of CDN, LB, previous middleware, etc. This issue has been patched in version 0.41b0.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0069
EPSS Percentile 47.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
opentelemetry/opentelemetry < 0.41b0
pypi/opentelemetry-instrumentation 0 - 0.41b0PyPI
Published Oct 06, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026