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SCA: security update for go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation (GHSA-5wrp-cwcj-q835)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 442433

Description

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)

Solution

Update the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage library and its related packages to version 1.42.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5wrp-cwcj-q835

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 442433

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/28/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41178

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41178

cwe: CWE-789