CVE-2026-81869

OpenTelemetry-Go: UTF-8 replacement rune bypasses attribute length truncation

State
Published
Severity
5.1 Medium
Published
Sep 16, 2026
Updated
Sep 17, 2026
Reserved
Aug 27, 2026

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Description

OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. From version 1.10.0 until 1.33.0, the sdk/trace/span.go attribute truncation path can fail to enforce AttributeValueLengthLimit for string and string-slice attributes containing the valid Unicode replacement character U+FFFD. safeTruncateValidUTF8 treats the valid replacement rune as invalid UTF-8 and returns the original input, while strings.ToValidUTF8 leaves that valid rune unchanged, so a second safeTruncate attempt can also return the oversized value. An attacker who controls span attribute content can retain values longer than the configured limit, increasing per-span memory use and weakening denial-of-service protection in the instrumented process. This issue is fixed in version 1.33.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.1 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-176 Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
opentelemetry-goopen-telemetry
  • >= 1.10.0, < 1.33.0Affected

References

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