GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-f2r5-5m7w-p5cx opentelemetry-ebpf-profiler: Unprivileged process can trigger a denial of service on the ebpf-profiler agent

MEDIUM Published 2026-06-23 Modified 2026-06-23 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-48496
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
go.opentelemetry.io/ebpf-profiler
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-770
Reviewed
2026-06-23

Affected packages

• Go go.opentelemetry.io/ebpf-profiler: >= 0.0.202527, < 0.0.202622 → fixed in 0.0.202622

Description

Summary An unprivileged process can easily trigger the `processPIDEvents` goroutine to be blocked indefinitely, preventing the goroutine from analyzing any new ELF file. The goroutine stays blocked in the `openat2` syscall forever and the profiler can no longer work properly, it is a denial of service. Impact The impact is limited to denial-of-service on the ebpf-profiler agent: • There has to be a malicious workload albeit unprivileged. • No exfiltration of data. No loss of data. Fix Fixed in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-profiler/commit/234b685cab31c2cb2f79e966caeab168bcc489e4. Fix is part of v.0.0.202622.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-48496 OpenTelemetry eBPF Profiler is a production-scale agent for profiling applications across multiple programming languages. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References