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CVE-2026-40182: OpenTelemetry dotnet: OTLP exporter reads unbounded HTTP response bodies

April 23, 2026

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.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-q834-8qmm-v933
  • github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet
  • github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/6564
  • github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/7017
  • github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/security/advisories/GHSA-q834-8qmm-v933
  • github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/pull/781
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40182

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.13.1 before 1.15.2

Fixed versions

  • 1.15.2

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.15.2 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Source file

nuget/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol/CVE-2026-40182.yml

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