CVE-2026-41173: OpenTelemetry.Sampler.AWS & OpenTelemetry.Resources.AWS have unbounded HTTP response body reads
OpenTelemetry.Sampler.AWS reads unbounded HTTP response bodies from a configured AWS X-Ray remote sampling endpoint into memory.
OpenTelemetry.Resources.AWS reads unbounded HTTP response bodies from a configured AWS EC2/ECS/EKS remote instance metadata service endpoint into memory.
Both of these would allow an attacker-controlled endpoint or be acting as a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) to cause excessive memory allocation and possible process termination (via Out of Memory (OOM)).
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-28xm-prxc-5866
- github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib
- github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib/pull/4100
- github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib/pull/4122
- github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib/security/advisories/GHSA-28xm-prxc-5866
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41173
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