opentelemetry-java is the Java implementation of the OpenTelemetry API for recording telemetry, and SDK for managing telemetry recorded by the API. Prior to 1.62.0, a vulnerability affects the baggage propagation implementation in opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-extension-trace-propagators. Parsing oversized baggage causes unbounded memory allocation and CPU consumption. Because baggage is automatically re-injected into every outgoing request, the effect can fan out to downstream services that never received the original malicious request. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.62.0.
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| Description | opentelemetry-java is the Java implementation of the OpenTelemetry API for recording telemetry, and SDK for managing telemetry recorded by the API. Prior to 1.62.0, a vulnerability affects the baggage propagation implementation in opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-extension-trace-propagators. Parsing oversized baggage causes unbounded memory allocation and CPU consumption. Because baggage is automatically re-injected into every outgoing request, the effect can fan out to downstream services that never received the original malicious request. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.62.0. | |
| Title | opentelemetry-java: Unbounded Memory Allocation in W3C Baggage Propagation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-05-28T16:37:29.490Z
Updated: 2026-05-28T17:27:14.164Z
Reserved: 2026-05-11T20:14:43.201Z
Link: CVE-2026-45292
Updated: 2026-05-28T17:27:08.804Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-05-28T17:16:32.060
Modified: 2026-05-29T15:42:56.873
Link: CVE-2026-45292
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