CVE-2026-40891: OpenTelemetry dotnet: Unbounded `grpc-status-details-bin` parsing in OTLP/gRPC retry handling

April 23, 2026

When exporting telemetry over gRPC using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), the exporter may parse a server-provided grpc-status-details-bin trailer during retry handling. Prior to the fix, a malformed trailer could encode an extremely large length-delimited protobuf field which was used directly for allocation, allowing excessive memory allocation and potential denial of service (DoS).

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-mr8r-92fq-pj8p
github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/5980
github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/7064
github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/security/advisories/GHSA-mr8r-92fq-pj8p
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40891

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