CVE•Published 2026-09-16•Modified 2026-09-30•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-81869

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1
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EPSS percentile
7
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 93% of all CVEs
Description

OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. From version 1.10.0 until 1.33.0, the sdk/trace/span.go attribute truncation path can fail to enforce AttributeValueLengthLimit for string and string-slice attributes containing the valid Unicode replacement character U+FFFD. safeTruncateValidUTF8 treats the valid replacement rune as invalid UTF-8 and returns the original input, while strings.ToValidUTF8 leaves that valid rune unchanged, so a second safeTruncate attempt can also return the oversized value. An attacker who controls span attribute content can retain values longer than the configured limit, increasing per-span memory use and weakening denial-of-service protection in the instrumented process. This issue is fixed in version 1.33.0.

Timeline
Published 2026-09-16
Modified 2026-09-30

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