CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-42602

Observable Timing Discrepancy

Published: May 13, 2026 | Modified: Jun 01, 2026
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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azureauthextension is the Azure Authenticator Extension. From 0.124.0 to 0.150.0, a server-side authentication bypass in azureauthextension allows any party who holds a single valid Azure access token for any scope the collectors configured identity can mint for to authenticate to any OpenTelemetry receiver that uses auth: azure_auth. The extensions Authenticate method does not validate incoming bearer tokens as JWTs. Instead, it calls its own configured credential to obtain an access token and compares the clients token to the result with string equality — and the scope for that server-side token request is taken from the client-supplied Host header. As a result, a token minted for any Azure resource the service principal has ever been issued a token for (ARM, Graph, Key Vault, Storage, etc.) will authenticate to the collector if the attacker picks a matching Host. Tokens are replayable for the full issued lifetime (commonly several hours for managed identity tokens).

Weakness

Two separate operations in a product require different amounts of time to complete, in a way that is observable to an actor and reveals security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Opentelemetry_collector_contribOpentelemetry0.124.0 (including)0.150.0 (including)

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