CVE-2026-40182CWE-789

OpenTelemetry dotnet: OTLP exporter reads unbounded HTTP response bodies

Medium · published April 23, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

OpenTelemetry dotnet is a dotnet telemetry framework. From 1.13.1 to before 1.15.2, When exporting telemetry to a back-end/collector over gRPC or HTTP using OpenTelemetry Protocol format (OTLP), if the request results in a unsuccessful request (i.e. HTTP 4xx or 5xx), the response is read into memory with no upper-bound on the number of bytes consumed. This could cause memory exhaustion in the consuming application if the configured back-end/collector endpoint is attacker-controlled (or a network attacker can MitM the connection) and an extremely large body is returned by the response. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00558 · 45.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-789 · Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Published
2026-04-23T17:51Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 APR 17:51Z
    OpenTelemetry dotnet: OTLP exporter reads unbounded HTTP response bodies
    cvelistv5