CVE-2024-36129

moderate-risk
Published 2024-06-05

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.

Do I need to act?

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2.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.2/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (3)

Configgrpc
Confighttp
Opentelemetry Collector

Affected Vendors

Opentelemetry

References (8)

Patch https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/10289
Patch https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/10323
Exploit https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/security/advisories/GH...
Vendor Advisory https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2024/cve-2024-36129
Patch https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/10289
Patch https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/10323
Exploit https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/security/advisories/GH...
Vendor Advisory https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2024/cve-2024-36129
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 28/34 · Critical
Exploitability 6/34 · Minimal
Exposure 9/34 · Low