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High · 7.0 CVE-2026-81192 EUVD-2026-74187GHSA-v8pv-4842-x354

OpenTelemetry.Resources.Host vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via local PATH hijacking on macOS

Published Sep 8, 2026 · Updated Sep 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

`OpenTelemetry.Resources.Host` NuGet package, which provides OpenTelemetry resource detectors for host, is affected by an untrusted search path vulnerability on macOS. Prior to version 1.16.0-beta.2, the `host.id` resource attribute detector launches the `sh` and `ioreg` executables by bare name rather than by absolute path, so both are resolved through the `PATH` environment variable. A local attacker who is less privileged than the host application, and who can influence `PATH` or write to a directory that appears in `PATH` ahead of the system directories, can have an arbitrary binary executed in the application's security context, resulting in local code execution/privilege escalation. This vulnerability only affect macOS hosts - Linux and Windows hosts are unaffected. Version 1.16.0-beta.2 contains a patch. No known workarounds are available.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
open-telemetry opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib < 1.16.0-beta.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
NuGet OpenTelemetry.Resources.Host < 1.16.0-beta.2 1.16.0-beta.2 GHSA-v8pv-4842-x354

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