open-telemetry opentelemetry-java-instrumentation up to 2.26.x RMI Endpoint resource consumption

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A vulnerability has been found in open-telemetry opentelemetry-java-instrumentation up to 2.26.x and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component RMI Endpoint. The manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-54712. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in open-telemetry opentelemetry-java-instrumentation up to 2.26.x. This issue affects an unknown part of the component RMI Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation provides OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation and instrumentation libraries for Java. In versions prior to 2.27.0, the RMI context propagation payload reader limits the number of context entries but does not limit the aggregate size of the strings read from the stream. An attacker who can reach an RMI endpoint on an instrumented JVM can send an oversized context propagation payload. This can cause excessive memory allocation while the JVM reads the payload, potentially leading to denial of service. The issue affects only deployments where RMI instrumentation is enabled and an RMI endpoint is network-reachable. This issue has been fixed in version 2.27.0.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-54712 since 06/16/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 2.27.0 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

Website

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

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