CVE-2026-45292

high

Description

opentelemetry-java is the Java implementation of the OpenTelemetry API for recording telemetry, and SDK for managing telemetry recorded by the API. Prior to 1.62.0, a vulnerability affects the baggage propagation implementation in opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-extension-trace-propagators. Parsing oversized baggage causes unbounded memory allocation and CPU consumption. Because baggage is automatically re-injected into every outgoing request, the effect can fan out to downstream services that never received the original malicious request. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.62.0.

References

https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-45292.json

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/security/advisories/GHSA-rcgg-9c38-7xpx

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/releases/tag/v1.62.0

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/pull/8380

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/commit/03837d3c1763bc35464aea1078671e2ef2336a5f

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482785

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45292

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28573

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-28

Updated: 2026-07-02

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: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00045