OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. Versions 1.41.0 and 1.43.0 removed raw-length rejection and it causes `Parse` to process arbitrarily large/invalid baggage headers and log errors, enabling DoS via oversized inputs. Versions 1.42.0 and 1.44.0 fix the issue.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-14ebd38fea advisory.

    Update to 0.40.9 - fixes CVE-2026-41178 (DoS via oversized OpenTelemetry baggage headers)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-70dd9b4fc0 advisory.

    Update to 0.40.9 - fixes CVE-2026-41178 (DoS via oversized OpenTelemetry baggage headers)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. Versions 1.41.0 and 1.43.0 removed raw-length     rejection and it causes `Parse` to process arbitrarily large/invalid baggage headers and log errors,     enabling DoS via oversized inputs. Versions 1.42.0 and 1.44.0 fix the issue. (CVE-2026-41178)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. Versions 1.41.0 and 1.43.0 removed raw-length
    rejection and it causes `Parse` to process arbitrarily large/invalid baggage headers and log errors,
    enabling DoS via oversized inputs. Versions 1.42.0 and 1.44.0 fix the issue. (CVE-2026-41178)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
338834	Fedora 44 : pack (2026-14ebd38fea)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
338792	Fedora 43 : pack (2026-70dd9b4fc0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
318810	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-41178	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
442433	SCA: security update for go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation (GHSA-5wrp-cwcj-q835)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
442433	SCA: security update for go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation (GHSA-5wrp-cwcj-q835)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium

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