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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-40182 EUVD-2026-25266GHSA-q834-8qmm-v933

OpenTelemetry dotnet: OTLP exporter reads unbounded HTTP response bodies

Published Apr 23, 2026 · Updated Apr 23, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

OpenTelemetry dotnet is a dotnet telemetry framework. From 1.13.1 to before 1.15.2, When exporting telemetry to a back-end/collector over gRPC or HTTP using OpenTelemetry Protocol format (OTLP), if the request results in a unsuccessful request (i.e. HTTP 4xx or 5xx), the response is read into memory with no upper-bound on the number of bytes consumed. This could cause memory exhaustion in the consuming application if the configured back-end/collector endpoint is attacker-controlled (or a network attacker can MitM the connection) and an extremely large body is returned by the response. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
open-telemetry opentelemetry-dotnet >= 1.13.1, < 1.15.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
NuGet OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol >= 1.13.1, < 1.15.2 1.15.2 GHSA-q834-8qmm-v933

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