CVE-2026-40182

MEDIUM

OpenTelemetry dotnet: OTLP exporter reads unbounded HTTP response bodies

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 14.0%
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