CVE-2024-36129

OpenTelemetry Collector has a Denial of Service via Zip/Decompression Bomb sent over HTTP or gRPC

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: June 5, 2024 at 05:26 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:36 AM UTC
4 products affected across 1 vendorConfighttpOpentelemetry CollectorConfiggrpc

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
PoC

Description

The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process and export telemetry data. An unsafe decompression vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the collector via excessive memory consumption. OTel Collector version 0.102.1 fixes this issue. It is also fixed in the confighttp module version 0.102.0 and configgrpc module version 0.102.1.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 0.102.1
Affected range stops below 0.102.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 0.102.0
Affected range stops below 0.102.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 0.102.1
Affected range stops below 0.102.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 0.102.1
Affected range stops below 0.102.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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