CVE-2026-40891CWE-789

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

Medium · published April 23, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
20.1
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 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.

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
0.00287 · 20.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-789 · Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Published
2026-04-23T17:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 APR 17:54Z
    OpenTelemetry dotnet: Unbounded `grpc-status-details-bin` parsing in OTLP/gRPC retry handling
    cvelistv5