DoS vulnerability for high cardinality metrics in opentelemetry-go-contrib
Summary
DoS vulnerability for high cardinality metrics in opentelemetry-go-contrib
Original description
The description as published by the source.
opentelemetry-go-contrib is a collection of extensions for OpenTelemetry-Go. The v0.38.0 release of go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp uses the httpconv.ServerRequest function to annotate metric measurements for the http.server.request_content_length, http.server.response_content_length, and http.server.duration instruments. The ServerRequest function sets the http.target attribute value to be the whole request URI (including the query string)[^1]. The metric instruments do not "forget" previous measurement attributes when cumulative temporality is used, this means the cardinality of the measurements allocated is directly correlated with the unique URIs handled. If the query string is constantly random, this will result in a constant increase in memory allocation that can be used in a denial-of-service attack. This issue has been addressed in version 0.39.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-25151 golang-opentelemetry-contrib
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- web github.com