CVE-2024-36129: open-telemetry opentelemetry-collector

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-36129 is a high (CVSS 8.2) vulnerability in open-telemetry opentelemetry-collector. EPSS estimates a 1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 05-06-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 02-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.