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CVE-2023-25151 (GCVE-0-2023-25151)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-08 19:21 – Updated: 2025-03-10 21:14
VLAI
Title
DoS vulnerability for high cardinality metrics in opentelemetry-go-contrib
Summary
opentelemetry-go-contrib is a collection of extensions for OpenTelemetry-Go. The v0.38.0 release of `go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp` uses the `httpconv.ServerRequest` function to annotate metric measurements for the `http.server.request_content_length`, `http.server.response_content_length`, and `http.server.duration` instruments. The `ServerRequest` function sets the `http.target` attribute value to be the whole request URI (including the query string)[^1]. The metric instruments do not "forget" previous measurement attributes when `cumulative` temporality is used, this means the cardinality of the measurements allocated is directly correlated with the unique URIs handled. If the query string is constantly random, this will result in a constant increase in memory allocation that can be used in a denial-of-service attack. This issue has been addressed in version 0.39.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-10 21:02 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
open-telemetry opentelemetry-go-contrib Affected: >= 0.38.0, < 0.39.0
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