Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation package, versions [,0.9.0)
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- published29 Jun 2026
- disclosed18 May 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 18 May 2026
CVE-2026-45682 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation to version 0.9.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to improper cleanup in the CappedConcurrentHashMap process. An attacker can cause unbounded memory growth and eventual exhaustion by repeatedly creating and removing entries, leading to application instability or crashes.