Advisories for Golang/Github.com/Open-Telemetry/Opentelemetry-Collector-Contrib/Extension/Azureauthextension package

2026

opentelemetry-collector-contrib's azureauthextension Authenticate method does not validate bearer tokens, allowing auth bypass via replay

A server-side authentication bypass in azureauthextension allows any party who holds a single valid Azure access token for any scope the collector's configured identity can mint for to authenticate to any OpenTelemetry receiver that uses auth: azure_auth. The extension's Authenticate method does not validate incoming bearer tokens as JWTs. Instead, it calls its own configured credential to obtain an access token and compares the client's token to the result with …