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SCA: security update for opentelemetry-instrumentation (GHSA-5rv5-6h4r-h22v)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411015

Description

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

 - OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel for short, is a vendor-neutral open-source Observability framework for
 instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, logs.
 Autoinstrumentation out of the box adds the label `http_method` that has unbound cardinality. It leads to
 the server's potential memory exhaustion when many malicious requests are sent. HTTP method for requests
 can be easily set by an attacker to be random and long. In order to be affected program has to be
 instrumented for HTTP handlers and does not filter any unknown HTTP methods on the level of CDN, LB,
 previous middleware, etc. This issue has been patched in version 0.41b0. (CVE-2023-43810)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5rv5-6h4r-h22v

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411015

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43810

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43810

cwe: CWE-400