Medium, CVSS 5.9NuGetPublished
OpenTelemetry.Sampler.AWS & OpenTelemetry.Resources.AWS have unbounded HTTP response body reads
CVE-2026-41173 · GHSA-28xm-prxc-5866
- Affected
- NuGet opentelemetry.resources.aws < 1.15.1
- Fixed in
- 1.15.1· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- OpenTelemetry.Sampler.AWS reads unbounded HTTP response bodies from a configured AWS X-Ray remote sampling endpoint into memory. OpenTelemetry.Resources.AWS reads unbounded HTTP response bodies from a configured AWS EC2/ECS/EKS remote instance metadata service endpoint into memory. Both of these would allow an attacker-controlled endpoint or be acting as a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) to cause excessive memory allocation and possible process termination (via Out of Memory (OOM)). Details OpenTelemetry.Sampler.AWS AWSXRaySamplerClient.DoRequestAsync called HttpClient.SendAsync followed by ReadAsStringAsync(), which materializes the entire HTTP response body into a single in-memory string with no size limit. The sampling endpoint is configurable via AWSXRayRemoteSamplerBuilder.SetEndpoint (default: http://localhost:2000). An attacker who controls the configured endpoint, or who can intercept traffic to it (MitM), can return an arbitrarily large response body. This causes unbounded…
Recommended action: Upgrade to 1.15.1 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.