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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-41310 EUVD-2026-28222GHSA-88hf-wf7h-7w4m

OpenTelemetry .NET Zipkin exporter has unbounded remote endpoint cache leading to memory growth

Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 7, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin is the .NET Zipkin exporter for OpenTelemetry. In versions 1.15.2 and earlier, the Zipkin exporter remote endpoint cache accepts unbounded key growth derived from span attributes. In high-cardinality scenarios, a process using Zipkin export for client or producer spans could experience avoidable memory growth under sustained unique remote endpoint values, increasing process memory usage over time and degrading availability. This issue is fixed in version 1.15.3, which introduces a bounded, thread-safe LRU cache for remote endpoints with a fixed maximum size.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
open-telemetry opentelemetry-dotnet <= 1.15.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
NuGet OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin < 1.15.3 1.15.3 GHSA-88hf-wf7h-7w4m

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