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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.3 Medium

CVE-2026-40894

OpenTelemetry dotnet: Excessive memory allocation when parsing OpenTelemetry propagation headers

Description

OpenTelemetry dotnet is a dotnet telemetry framework. In OpenTelemetry.Api 0.5.0-beta.2 to 1.15.2 and OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Propagators 1.3.1 to 1.15.2, The implementation details of the baggage, B3 and Jaeger processing code in the OpenTelemetry.Api and OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Propagators NuGet packages can allocate excessive memory when parsing which could create a potential denial of service (DoS) in the consuming application. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.3.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

open-telemetry opentelemetry-dotnet

  • >= 0.5.0-beta.2, < 1.15.3affected

open-telemetry OpenTelemetry.Api

  • >= 0.5.0-beta.2, < 1.15.3affected

open-telemetry OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Propagators

  • >= 1.3.1, < 1.15.3affected

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