CVE-2026-41310 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-41310: OpenTelemetry .NET Zipkin exporter has unbounded remote endpoint cache leading to memory growth

Vendor Open-Telemetry
Product opentelemetry-dotnet
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published May 6, 2026
Last update May 7, 2026

CVSS base score

5.3/10
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:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin is the .NET Zipkin exporter for OpenTelemetry. In versions 1.15.2 and earlier, the Zipkin exporter remote endpoint cache accepts unbounded key growth derived from span attributes. In high-cardinality scenarios, a process using Zipkin export for client or producer spans could experience avoidable memory growth under sustained unique remote endpoint values, increasing process memory usage over time and degrading availability. This issue is fixed in version 1.15.3, which introduces a bounded, thread-safe LRU cache for remote endpoints with a fixed maximum size.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 6, 2026 CVE published
May 7, 2026 Record updated