Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting go.opentelemetry.io/ebpf-profiler/ebpf-profiler/process package, versions >=0.0.202527 <0.0.202622
Threat Intelligence
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- published7 Jul 2026
- disclosed23 Jun 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 23 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-48496 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade go.opentelemetry.io/ebpf-profiler/ebpf-profiler/process to version 0.0.202622 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the processPIDEvents goroutine. An attacker can cause the agent to become unresponsive by triggering the goroutine to block indefinitely in the openat2 syscall, preventing further analysis of new ELF files.