CVE-2026-40182
MEDIUMOpenTelemetry dotnet: OTLP exporter reads unbounded HTTP response bodies
Title source: cnaDescription
OpenTelemetry dotnet is a dotnet telemetry framework. From 1.13.1 to before 1.15.2, When exporting telemetry to a back-end/collector over gRPC or HTTP using OpenTelemetry Protocol format (OTLP), if the request results in a unsuccessful request (i.e. HTTP 4xx or 5xx), the response is read into memory with no upper-bound on the number of bytes consumed. This could cause memory exhaustion in the consuming application if the configured back-end/collector endpoint is attacker-controlled (or a network attacker can MitM the connection) and an extremely large body is returned by the response. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
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https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/security/advisories/GHSA-q834-8qmm-v933
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https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/6564
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https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/7017
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https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/pull/781
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0030
EPSS Percentile
21.9%
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-789
Status
published
Products (3)
nuget/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol
1.13.1 - 1.15.2NuGet
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet
>= 1.13.1, < 1.15.2
opentelemetry/opentelemetry
1.13.1 - 1.15.2
Published
Apr 23, 2026
Tracked Since
Apr 23, 2026