CVE-2023-43810
HIGHOpenTelemetry < 0.41b0 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via HTTP Method Label
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/security/advisories/GHSA-5rv5-6h4r-h22v
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/commit/6007e0c013071e7f8b9612d3bc68aeb9d600d74e
Release Notes x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/releases/tag/v0.41b0
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