CVE-2026-40182 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-40182: OpenTelemetry dotnet: OTLP exporter reads unbounded HTTP response bodies

Vendor Open-Telemetry
Product opentelemetry-dotnet
Weakness CWE-789
Published April 23, 2026
Last update April 23, 2026

CVSS base score

5.3/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 23, 2026 CVE published
April 23, 2026 Record updated