CVE-2026-41310

OpenTelemetry .NET Zipkin exporter has unbounded remote endpoint cache leading to memory growth

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
May 6, 2026
Updated
May 7, 2026
Reserved
Apr 20, 2026

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Description

OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin is the .NET Zipkin exporter for OpenTelemetry. In versions 1.15.2 and earlier, the Zipkin exporter remote endpoint cache accepts unbounded key growth derived from span attributes. In high-cardinality scenarios, a process using Zipkin export for client or producer spans could experience avoidable memory growth under sustained unique remote endpoint values, increasing process memory usage over time and degrading availability. This issue is fixed in version 1.15.3, which introduces a bounded, thread-safe LRU cache for remote endpoints with a fixed maximum size.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
opentelemetry-dotnetopen-telemetry
  • <= 1.15.2Affected

References

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