CVE-2026-81869CWE-176CWE-400denial-of-service

CVE-2026-81869

published September 17, 2026

CVSS
5.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. From version 1.10.0 until 1.33.0, the sdk/trace/span.go attribute truncation path can fail to enforce AttributeValueLengthLimit for string and string-slice attributes containing the valid Unicode replacement character U+FFFD. safeTruncateValidUTF8 treats the valid replacement rune as invalid UTF-8 and returns the original input, while strings.ToValidUTF8 leaves that valid rune unchanged, so a second safeTruncate attempt can also return the oversized value. An attacker who controls span attribute content can retain values longer than the configured limit, increasing per-span memory use and weakening denial-of-service protection in the instrumented process. This issue is fixed in version 1.33.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
5.1 · NONE
CVSS v4.0
5.1 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00180 · 7.2th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-176 · Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding; CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2026-09-17T01:17Z
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 SEP 04:01Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 16 SEP 20:41Z
    OpenTelemetry-Go: UTF-8 replacement rune bypasses attribute length truncation
    cvelistv5