CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-112006
8.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.3 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
Description
OpenTelemetry opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http 1.5.0 before 1.45.0 contains an improper certificate validation vulnerability that disables TLS verification when OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_CERTIFICATE variables are empty strings. Man-in-the-middle attackers can impersonate the collector to read or alter exported traces, metrics, and logs, including authentication headers from OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/blob/v1.44.0/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/src/opentelemetry/exporter/otlp/proto/http/trace_exporter/__init__.py#L170-L185 github.com
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/blob/v1.44.0/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/src/opentelemetry/exporter/otlp/proto/http/trace_exporter/__init__.py#L93-L96 github.com
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/commit/89cc68b9ea7e15969b4f042d63397bdc74a3d60e github.com
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/releases/tag/v1.45.0 github.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/opentelemetry-opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http-1.5.0-before-1.45.0-improper-certificate-validation www.vulncheck.com