Medium severity · published Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2026-40182
OpenTelemetry dotnet: OTLP exporter reads unbounded HTTP response bodies
5.9
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
OpenTelemetry dotnet is a dotnet telemetry framework. From 1.13.1 to before 1.15.2, When exporting telemetry to a back-end/collector over gRPC or HTTP using OpenTelemetry Protocol format (OTLP), if the request results in a unsuccessful request (i.e. HTTP 4xx or 5xx), the response is read into memory with no upper-bound on the number of bytes consumed. This could cause memory exhaustion in the consuming application if the configured back-end/collector endpoint is attacker-controlled (or a network attacker can MitM the connection) and an extremely large body is returned by the response. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 23% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
opentelemetry-dotnet · open-telemetry
>= 1.13.1, < 1.15.2 · source: vendor
OP
Opentelemetry · Opentelemetry
1.13.1 before 1.15.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40182
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40182
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/6564
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/7017
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/security/advisories/GHSA-q834-8qmm-v933
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/pull/781
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