CVE-2026-40891 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 15.04.2026 Published: 23.04.2026 Updated: 23.04.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor open-telemetry
Product opentelemetry-dotnet
Versions
  • Version >= 1.13.1, < 1.15.3 is affected
Vendor open-telemetry
Product OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol
Versions
  • Version >= 1.13.1, < 1.15.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value CWE