CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-40891

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Published: Apr 23, 2026 | Modified: Oct 26, 2026
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product allocates memory based on an untrusted, large size value, but it does not ensure that the size is within expected limits, allowing arbitrary amounts of memory to be allocated.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
OpentelemetryOpentelemetry1.13.1 (including)1.15.3 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References