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SCA: security update for github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/bearertokenauthextension (GHSA-rfxf-mf63-cpqv)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418714

Description

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

 - OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel, is a vendor-neutral open source Observability framework for
 instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs. The
 bearertokenauth extension's server authenticator performs a simple, non-constant time string comparison of
 the received & configured bearer tokens. This impacts anyone using the `bearertokenauth` server
 authenticator. Malicious clients with network access to the collector may perform a timing attack against
 a collector with this authenticator to guess the configured token, by iteratively sending tokens and
 comparing the response time. This would allow an attacker to introduce fabricated or bad data into the
 collector's telemetry pipeline. The observable timing vulnerability was fixed by using constant-time
 comparison in 0.107.0 (CVE-2024-42368)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rfxf-mf63-cpqv

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418714

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 7.46

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-42368

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-42368

cwe: CWE-208