# CVE-2026-40891: OpenTelemetry dotnet: Unbounded \`grpc-status-details-bin\` parsing in OTLP/gRPC retry handling

- Also known as: GHSA-MR8R-92FQ-PJ8P
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.15.3
- Published: 2026-04-23 · Updated: 2026-04-23

## Affected

- open-telemetry opentelemetry-dotnet: from 1.13.1, fixed in 1.15.3
- open-telemetry OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol: from 1.13.1, fixed in 1.15.3
- OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol (NuGet): from 1.13.1, fixed in 1.15.3

## Description

OpenTelemetry dotnet is a dotnet telemetry framework. From 1.13.1 to before 1.15.2, When exporting telemetry over gRPC using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), the exporter may parse a server-provided grpc-status-details-bin trailer during retry handling. Prior to the fix, a malformed trailer could encode an extremely large length-delimited protobuf field which was used directly for allocation, allowing excessive memory allocation and potential denial of service (DoS). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on open-telemetry opentelemetry-dotnet, open-telemetry OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol, OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol, upgrade to a fixed version (1.15.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/security/advisories/GHSA-mr8r-92fq-pj8p
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/5980
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/7064

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