Medium severity · published Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2026-41173
Unbounded HTTP response body read in OpenTelemetry.Sampler.AWS
5.9
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The AWS X-Ray Remote Sampler package provides a sampler which can get sampling configurations from AWS X-Ray. Prior to 0.1.0-alpha.8, OpenTelemetry.Sampler.AWS reads unbounded HTTP response bodies from a configured AWS X-Ray remote sampling endpoint into memory. AWSXRaySamplerClient.DoRequestAsync called HttpClient.SendAsync followed by ReadAsStringAsync(), which materializes the entire HTTP response body into a single in-memory string with no size limit. The sampling endpoint is configurable via AWSXRayRemoteSamplerBuilder.SetEndpoint (default: http://localhost:2000). An attacker who controls the configured endpoint, or who can intercept traffic to it (MitM), can return an arbitrarily large response body. This causes unbounded heap allocation in the consuming process, leading to high transient memory pressure, garbage-collection stalls, or an OutOfMemoryException that terminates the process. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.1.0-alpha.8.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 23% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib · open-telemetry
< 0.1.0-alpha.8 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41173
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-41173
github.com
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib/pull/4100
github.com
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib/security/advisories/GHSA-28xm-prxc-5866
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