GitHub Advisoryadvisory · NuGet
GHSA-w2jh-77fq-7gp8 OpAMP client reads unbounded HTTP response bodies
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-42348
- Ecosystem
- NuGet
- Packages
- OpenTelemetry.OpAmp.Client
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-789
- Reviewed
- 2026-05-05
Affected packages
• NuGet OpenTelemetry.OpAmp.Client: < 0.2.0-alpha.1 → fixed in 0.2.0-alpha.1
Description
Summary
When receiving responses from the OpAMP server over HTTP, the OpAMP client allocates an unbounded buffer to read all bytes from the server, with no upper-bound on the number of bytes consumed.
This could cause memory exhaustion in the consuming application if the configured OpAMP server is attacker-controlled (or a network attacker can MitM the connection) and an extremely large body is returned in the response.
Details
#2926 introduced the initial HTTP transport components which uses `ReadAsByteArrayAsync` to copy the `HttpResponseMessage.Content` into a byte array. This code path allows an unbounded read of the entire HTTP response message.
Impact
If an application using the OpAMP client is configured to use an OpAMP server that is attacker-controlled (or a network attacker can MitM the connection) and an extremely large body is returned in the response, the application could have its memory exhausted and create a denial-of-service condition.
Mitigation
The application's configured OpAMP server needs to behave maliciously. If the OpAMP server is a well-behaved implementation, response bodies should not be excessively large.
Workarounds
None known.
Remediation
#4116 updates the OpAMP client HTTP transport to limit the maximum size of responses to 128KB.
Resources
• #2926
• #4116
• CWE-789
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-42348 OpenTelemetry.OpAmp.Client is the OpAMP client for OpenTelemetry .NET. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value weakness
References
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib/security/advisories/GHSA-w2jh-77fq-7gp8 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42348 advisory
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib/pull/4116 web
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib/commit/bf1fad4fa298ff451cda0efb0ee9c7a7eb46212a web
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib package