Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVE-2023-47108
Summary
OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib is a collection of third-party packages for OpenTelemetry-Go. In versions through 0.45.0, and 1.0.0 through 1.20.0 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. 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`.
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- NETWORK
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- UNCHANGED
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- HIGH
CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published