CVE-2026-40894

medium

Description

OpenTelemetry dotnet is a dotnet telemetry framework. In OpenTelemetry.Api 0.5.0-beta.2 to 1.15.2 and OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Propagators 1.3.1 to 1.15.2, The implementation details of the baggage, B3 and Jaeger processing code in the OpenTelemetry.Api and OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Propagators NuGet packages can allocate excessive memory when parsing which could create a potential denial of service (DoS) in the consuming application. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.3.

References

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/security/advisories/GHSA-g94r-2vxg-569j

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/7061

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/533

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/3309

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/3244

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/1048

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-23

Updated: 2026-04-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium