CVE-2026-41173CWE-770

Unbounded HTTP response body read in OpenTelemetry.Sampler.AWS

Medium · published April 23, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
30.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The AWS X-Ray Remote Sampler package provides a sampler which can get sampling configurations from AWS X-Ray. Prior to 0.1.0-alpha.8, OpenTelemetry.Sampler.AWS reads unbounded HTTP response bodies from a configured AWS X-Ray remote sampling endpoint into memory. AWSXRaySamplerClient.DoRequestAsync called HttpClient.SendAsync followed by ReadAsStringAsync(), which materializes the entire HTTP response body into a single in-memory string with no size limit. The sampling endpoint is configurable via AWSXRayRemoteSamplerBuilder.SetEndpoint (default: http://localhost:2000). An attacker who controls the configured endpoint, or who can intercept traffic to it (MitM), can return an arbitrarily large response body. This causes unbounded heap allocation in the consuming process, leading to high transient memory pressure, garbage-collection stalls, or an OutOfMemoryException that terminates the process. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.1.0-alpha.8.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00378 · 30.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-04-23T18:22Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 APR 18:22Z
    Unbounded HTTP response body read in OpenTelemetry.Sampler.AWS
    cvelistv5