CVE-2024-36129OpenTelemetry Collector has a Denial of Service via Zip/Decompression Bomb sent over HTTP or gRPC
- 8.2HighCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 30% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 16 days later
· 16 days later
Published
- 58 days later
· 58 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 30% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.2.
Affected products
open-telemetry · opentelemetry-collector
- affected < 0.102.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogo.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configgrpcGHSA-c74f-6mfw-mm4v (opens in a new tab)
- Gogo.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/confighttpGHSA-c74f-6mfw-mm4v (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/security/advisories/GHSA-c74f-6mfw-mm4v (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/10289 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/10323 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2024/cve-2024-36129 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-2014 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-c74f-6mfw-mm4v (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-36129)Record last updated .