open-telemetry opentelemetry-go-contrib up to 0.45.x allocation of resources

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in open-telemetry opentelemetry-go-contrib up to 0.45.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to allocation of resources. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2023-47108. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in open-telemetry opentelemetry-go-contrib up to 0.45.x. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib is a collection of third-party packages for OpenTelemetry-Go. Starting in version 0.37.0 and prior to version 0.46.0, the grpc Unary Server Interceptor out of the box adds labels `net.peer.sock.addr` and `net.peer.sock.port` that have unbound cardinality. It leads to the server's potential memory exhaustion when many malicious requests are sent. An attacker can easily flood the peer address and port for requests. Version 0.46.0 contains a fix for this issue. As a workaround to stop being affected, a view removing the attributes can be used. The other possibility is to disable grpc metrics instrumentation by passing `otelgrpc.WithMeterProvider` option with `noop.NewMeterProvider`.

The weakness was published 11/10/2023 as GHSA-8pgv-569h-w5rw. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-47108 since 10/30/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 209193 (openSUSE 15 Security Update : etcd (SUSE-SU-2024:3656-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 0.46.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch b44dfc9092b157625a5815cb437583cee663333b is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (209193). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Vendor

• open-telemetry

Name

• opentelemetry-go-contrib

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.20
• 0.21
• 0.22
• 0.23
• 0.24
• 0.25
• 0.26
• 0.27
• 0.28
• 0.29
• 0.30
• 0.31
• 0.32
• 0.33
• 0.34
• 0.35
• 0.36
• 0.37
• 0.38
• 0.39
• 0.40
• 0.41
• 0.42
• 0.43
• 0.44
• 0.45

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib/

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