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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-40894 EUVD-2026-25269GHSA-g94r-2vxg-569j

OpenTelemetry dotnet: Excessive memory allocation when parsing OpenTelemetry propagation headers

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

Description

OpenTelemetry dotnet is a dotnet telemetry framework. In OpenTelemetry.Api 0.5.0-beta.2 to 1.15.2 and OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Propagators 1.3.1 to 1.15.2, The implementation details of the baggage, B3 and Jaeger processing code in the OpenTelemetry.Api and OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Propagators NuGet packages can allocate excessive memory when parsing which could create a potential denial of service (DoS) in the consuming application. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
open-telemetry opentelemetry-dotnet >= 0.5.0-beta.2, < 1.15.3 —
open-telemetry OpenTelemetry.Api >= 0.5.0-beta.2, < 1.15.3 —
open-telemetry OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Propagators >= 1.3.1, < 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 —
Wolfi rolling promitor 2.15.0-r3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
NuGet OpenTelemetry.Api >= 0.5.0-beta.2, < 1.15.3 1.15.3 GHSA-g94r-2vxg-569j
NuGet OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Propagators >= 1.3.1, < 1.15.3 1.15.3 GHSA-g94r-2vxg-569j

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