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Fencer Vulns
high 8.2

CVE-2024-36129 json

OpenTelemetry Collector has a Denial of Service via Zip/Decompression Bomb sent over HTTP or gRPC

published 2024-06-05 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also BIT-opentelemetry-collector-2024-36129 , EUVD-2024-2014 , GHSA-c74f-6mfw-mm4v , GO-2024-2900

cvss
8.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process and export telemetry data. An unsafe decompression vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the collector via excessive memory consumption. OTel Collector version 0.102.1 fixes this issue. It is also fixed in the confighttp module version 0.102.0 and configgrpc module version 0.102.1.

Patch / fix

  • go go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/confighttp 0.102.0
  • go go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configgrpc 0.102.1
  • bitnami opentelemetry-collector 0.102.1
  • opentelemetry opentelemetry 0.102.1
  • alloy openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.4.3-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14439-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-36129 updated cvss 8.2

opentelemetry-collector: denial of service via specially crafted HTTP or gRPC request

  • Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2 rhosdt/tempo-rhel8, rhosdt/tempo-query-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-agent-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-query-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-ingester-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-collector-rhel8, +4 more Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3 rhosdt/tempo-rhel8, rhosdt/tempo-query-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-agent-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-query-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-ingester-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-collector-rhel8, +3 more
    under investigation
  • Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.2 rhosdt/opentelemetry-collector-rhel8 0.102.0-2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:3943
  • Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.2 rhosdt/tempo-rhel8 2.4.2-4, rhosdt/jaeger-agent-rhel8 1.57.0-6, rhosdt/jaeger-query-rhel8 1.57.0-6, rhosdt/tempo-gateway-rhel8 1.0.0-9, rhosdt/tempo-query-rhel8 0.10.0-10, rhosdt/tempo-rhel8-operator 0.10.0-7, +12 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/security/advisories/GHSA-c74f-6mfw-mm4v referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/confighttp
<0.102.0
0.102.0
go go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configgrpc
<0.102.1
0.102.1
bitnami opentelemetry-collector
<0.102.1
0.102.1

Affected products

  • open-telemetry opentelemetry-collector
  • opentelemetry opentelemetry

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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