Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting opentelemetry.resources.aws package, versions [,1.15.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-OPENTELEMETRYRESOURCESAWS-16642131
  • published12 May 2026
  • disclosed24 Apr 2026
  • creditPiotr Kiełkowicz

Introduced: 24 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-41173  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade OpenTelemetry.Resources.AWS to version 1.15.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via DoRequestAsync. An attacker in control of a configured endpoint can cause excessive memory consumption and potentially terminate the process by supplying a large HTTP response body.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1