CVE-2023-25151CWE-400

DoS vulnerability for high cardinality metrics in opentelemetry-go-contrib

High · published February 8, 2023

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
61.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

opentelemetry-go-contrib is a collection of extensions for OpenTelemetry-Go. The v0.38.0 release of `go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp` uses the `httpconv.ServerRequest` function to annotate metric measurements for the `http.server.request_content_length`, `http.server.response_content_length`, and `http.server.duration` instruments. The `ServerRequest` function sets the `http.target` attribute value to be the whole request URI (including the query string)[^1]. The metric instruments do not "forget" previous measurement attributes when `cumulative` temporality is used, this means the cardinality of the measurements allocated is directly correlated with the unique URIs handled. If the query string is constantly random, this will result in a constant increase in memory allocation that can be used in a denial-of-service attack. This issue has been addressed in version 0.39.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00973 · 61.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2023-02-08T19:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 FEB 19:21Z
    DoS vulnerability for high cardinality metrics in opentelemetry-go-contrib
    cvelistv5