๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-44163

MEDIUM 5.3

fluent-plugin-opentelemetry: Denial of Service (DoS) via Large Payloads and Decompression Bombs in `in_opentelemetry`

CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

fluent-plugin-opentelemetry is a Fluentd input and output plugin for forwarding OpenTelemetry Protocol data. Prior to 0.5.3, the in_opentelemetry HTTP input read the entire incoming request body and decompressed payloads into memory without enforcing maximum size thresholds. When an OpenTelemetry ingestion endpoint was exposed to an untrusted network, an attacker could send an excessively large request or a highly compressed payload that expanded in memory. The resulting memory exhaustion could cause the operating system to terminate the Fluentd process, disrupting all log collection and forwarding on the affected node. This issue is fixed in version 0.5.3.

CWE CWE-409
Vendor fluent-plugins-nursery
Product fluent-plugin-opentelemetry
Published Sep 15, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Affected Versions

fluent-plugins-nursery / fluent-plugin-opentelemetry
< 0.5.3

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/fluent-plugins-nursery/fluent-plugin-opentelemetry/security/advisories/GHSA-2jc5-xhx8-qj6h github.com: https://github.com/fluent-plugins-nursery/fluent-plugin-opentelemetry/commit/ce6c1f2a7741592c8a79afbe75fded9e8ebfa92d