CVE-2026-40182

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/pull/781

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/security/advisories/GHSA-q834-8qmm-v933

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/7017

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/6564

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-23

Updated: 2026-04-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium