CVE-2023-47108 HIGH

CVE-2023-47108: DoS vulnerability in otelgrpc (uncontrolled resource consumption) due to unbound cardinality metrics

Vendor Open-Telemetry
Product opentelemetry-go-contrib
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published November 10, 2023
Last update October 28, 2025

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib is a collection of third-party packages for OpenTelemetry-Go. Starting in version 0.37.0 and prior to version 0.46.0, the grpc Unary Server Interceptor out of the box adds labels `net.peer.sock.addr` and `net.peer.sock.port` that have unbound cardinality. It leads to the server's potential memory exhaustion when many malicious requests are sent. An attacker can easily flood the peer address and port for requests. Version 0.46.0 contains a fix for this issue. As a workaround to stop being affected, a view removing the attributes can be used. The other possibility is to disable grpc metrics instrumentation by passing `otelgrpc.WithMeterProvider` option with `noop.NewMeterProvider`.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 10, 2023 CVE published
October 28, 2025 Record updated