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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-47108 (CVE-2023-47108)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2023-11-10 19:15 – Updated: 2026-10-17 09:18 – Source website

Details

OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib is a collection of third-party packages for OpenTelemetry-Go. Starting in version 0.37.0 and prior to version 0.46.0, the grpc Unary Server Interceptor out of the box adds labels net.peer.sock.addr and net.peer.sock.port that have unbound cardinality. It leads to the server's potential memory exhaustion when many malicious requests are sent. An attacker can easily flood the peer address and port for requests. Version 0.46.0 contains a fix for this issue. As a workaround to stop being affected, a view removing the attributes can be used. The other possibility is to disable grpc metrics instrumentation by passing otelgrpc.WithMeterProvider option with noop.NewMeterProvider.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-47108	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-47108	REPORT

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CVE-2023-47108 (GCVE-0-2023-47108)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-10 18:31 – Updated: 2025-10-28 18:22

Title

DoS vulnerability in otelgrpc (uncontrolled resource consumption) due to unbound cardinality metrics

Summary

OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib is a collection of third-party packages for OpenTelemetry-Go. Starting in version 0.37.0 and prior to version 0.46.0, the grpc Unary Server Interceptor out of the box adds labels `net.peer.sock.addr` and `net.peer.sock.port` that have unbound cardinality. It leads to the server's potential memory exhaustion when many malicious requests are sent. An attacker can easily flood the peer address and port for requests. Version 0.46.0 contains a fix for this issue. As a workaround to stop being affected, a view removing the attributes can be used. The other possibility is to disable grpc metrics instrumentation by passing `otelgrpc.WithMeterProvider` option with `noop.NewMeterProvider`.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-03 17:26 UTC

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 8034 records in the last 180 days details

References

7 references

URL	Tags
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https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-g…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-g…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-g…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-g…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-g…	x_refsource_MISC
https://pkg.go.dev/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metri…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
open-telemetry	opentelemetry-go-contrib	Affected: >= 0.37.0, < 0.46.0

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