Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api package, versions [,1.62.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.1% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-IOOPENTELEMETRY-17280222
  • published10 Jun 2026
  • disclosed28 May 2026
  • creditAugust829

Introduced: 28 May 2026

CVE-2026-45292  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api to version 1.62.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the W3CBaggagePropagator() function. An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation and CPU consumption by sending oversized baggage data, which is automatically re-injected into every outgoing request and can impact downstream services.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1