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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2026-55701 EUVD-2026-78778GHSA-w5cv-pw74-4rxcGO-2026-5690

OpenTelemetry githubreceiver silently ignores configured required_headers authentication

Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository contains components for the OpenTelemetry Collector. Prior to 0.151.0, the githubreceiver validates the receiver/githubreceiver/config.go RequiredHeaders configuration at startup, but receiver/githubreceiver/trace_receiver.go handleReq() does not check those headers on incoming webhook requests. An unauthenticated sender can therefore bypass an operator's required_headers authentication control and submit arbitrary webhook payloads. When the Secret field is empty, github.ValidatePayload also skips HMAC validation, leaving the webhook endpoint without either configured authentication mechanism. Successful exploitation can inject fabricated CI/CD trace data into the observability pipeline. This issue is fixed in version 0.151.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
open-telemetry opentelemetry-collector-contrib < 0.151.0 —
open-telemetry github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/githubreceiver < 0.151.0 —

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 golang-opentelemetry-contrib No fix yet —
Debian 13 golang-opentelemetry-contrib No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 opentelemetry-collector-contrib 0.160.0-0.1.hum1 RHSA-2026:63152
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

Advisories 2

References