CVE-2026-41310 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.04.2026 Published: 06.05.2026 Updated: 06.05.2026

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.

Metrics

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

Product Status

Vendor open-telemetry
Product opentelemetry-dotnet
Versions
  • Version <= 1.15.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE
  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE