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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-40891 EUVD-2026-25268GHSA-mr8r-92fq-pj8p

OpenTelemetry dotnet: Unbounded `grpc-status-details-bin` parsing in OTLP/gRPC retry handling

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 over gRPC using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), the exporter may parse a server-provided grpc-status-details-bin trailer during retry handling. Prior to the fix, a malformed trailer could encode an extremely large length-delimited protobuf field which was used directly for allocation, allowing excessive memory allocation and potential denial of service (DoS). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
open-telemetry opentelemetry-dotnet >= 1.13.1, < 1.15.3 —
open-telemetry OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol >= 1.13.1, < 1.15.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling kubernetes-reflector 10.0.39-r1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
NuGet OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol >= 1.13.1, < 1.15.3 1.15.3 GHSA-mr8r-92fq-pj8p

References