CVE-2026-118259

opentelemetry-java: Quadratic CPU consumption in W3C tracestate parsing

MEDIUM
5.3
CVSS Score
Published: October 28, 2026 at 06:53 PM UTC
Updated: October 29, 2026 at 04:19 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpenTelemetry Java

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Severity
MEDIUM5.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

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.

Affected

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

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

CVSS

5.3MEDIUMGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Vector?

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StatusAWAITING ANALYSIS
CWE
CWE-1333

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