CVE-2024-36129

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.

How to fix CVE-2024-36129

To remediate CVE-2024-36129, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 0.102.1 or later
• —upgrade to 0.102.1 or later
• —upgrade to 0.102.1 or later
• —upgrade to 0.102.0 or later
• —upgrade to 0.102.0 or later

Is CVE-2024-36129 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 2.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (5)

• from 0, < 0.102.1
• from 0, < 0.102.1
• from 0, < 0.102.1
• from 0, < 0.102.0
• from 0, < 0.102.0

CVSS scores

References (7)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36129
• PATCHgithub.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
• WEBgithub.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/10289
• WEBgithub.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/10323