opentelemetry-java is the Java implementation of the OpenTelemetry API for recording telemetry, and SDK for managing telemetry recorded by the API. Prior to 1.67.0, W3CTraceContextPropagator.extract() uses regex delimiter processing that can exhibit quadratic backtracking while parsing tracestate headers containing long runs of spaces or tabs without a following comma. An unauthenticated attacker whose headers reach extraction can repeatedly block request or event-loop threads and cause excessive CPU consumption, with practical impact bounded by ingress header-size limits, proxy configuration, and threading. This issue is fixed in version 1.67.0.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-ccrj-gw8r-854m opentelemetry-java: Quadratic CPU consumption in W3C tracestate parsing
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Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Opentelemetry
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Description opentelemetry-java is the Java implementation of the OpenTelemetry API for recording telemetry, and SDK for managing telemetry recorded by the API. Prior to 1.67.0, W3CTraceContextPropagator.extract() uses regex delimiter processing that can exhibit quadratic backtracking while parsing tracestate headers containing long runs of spaces or tabs without a following comma. An unauthenticated attacker whose headers reach extraction can repeatedly block request or event-loop threads and cause excessive CPU consumption, with practical impact bounded by ingress header-size limits, proxy configuration, and threading. This issue is fixed in version 1.67.0.
Title opentelemetry-java: Quadratic CPU consumption in W3C tracestate parsing
Weaknesses CWE-1333
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-28T18:53:25.875Z

Reserved: 2026-10-27T20:13:55.314Z

Link: CVE-2026-118259

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-28T19:17:30.510

Modified: 2026-10-28T19:17:30.510

Link: CVE-2026-118259

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-28T20:45:15Z

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