open-telemetry opentelemetry-java-instrumentation up to 2.27.x log file

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in open-telemetry opentelemetry-java-instrumentation up to 2.27.x. Affected is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to log file. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-54704. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in open-telemetry opentelemetry-java-instrumentation up to 2.27.x. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a log file vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-532. Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation provides OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation and instrumentation libraries for Java. In versions prior to 2.28.0, the JDBC auto-instrumentation may fail to sanitize passwords in SQL CONNECT statements when the password is double-quoted. As a result, clear-text database passwords can be added to trace span attributes and exported to observability backends. This issue has been fixed in version 2.28.0.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-54704 since 06/16/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

Upgrading to version 2.28.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Programming Language Software

Vendor

• open-telemetry

Name

• opentelemetry-java-instrumentation

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27

Website

• Product: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/

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