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.
Advisories
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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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| 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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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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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-28T19:17:30.510
Modified: 2026-10-28T19:17:30.510
Link: CVE-2026-118259
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-10-28T20:45:15Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA