CVE-2026-81192 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 08.09.2026 Updated: 08.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 7

Product Status

Vendor open-telemetry
Product opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib
Versions
  • Version < 1.16.0-beta.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path CWE