7.5
HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVE-2026-45686
OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation: Memcached payload length overflow can crash OBI
Description

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation provides eBPF instrumentation based on the OpenTelemetry standard. From version 0.7.0 to before version 0.9.0, a remotely reachable integer overflow in OBI's memcached text protocol parser can crash the OBI process and cause denial of service. When parsing memcached storage commands such as set, add, replace, append, prepend, or cas, OBI accepts extremely large <bytes> values and adds the payload delimiter length without checking for overflow. A crafted request with <bytes> set to math.MaxInt or math.MaxInt-1 causes the computed payload length to wrap negative and triggers a runtime panic in LargeBufferReader.Peek. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.0.

INFO

Published Date :

June 2, 2026, 4:16 p.m.

Last Modified :

June 2, 2026, 5:14 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !
Affected Products

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CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
Update OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation to version 0.9.0 or later to fix a denial-of-service vulnerability.
  • Update OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation to version 0.9.0.
  • Apply version 0.9.0 or later.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/releases/tag/v0.9.0
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/security/advisories/GHSA-43g7-cwr8-q3jh
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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jun. 02, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation provides eBPF instrumentation based on the OpenTelemetry standard. From version 0.7.0 to before version 0.9.0, a remotely reachable integer overflow in OBI's memcached text protocol parser can crash the OBI process and cause denial of service. When parsing memcached storage commands such as set, add, replace, append, prepend, or cas, OBI accepts extremely large <bytes> values and adds the payload delimiter length without checking for overflow. A crafted request with <bytes> set to math.MaxInt or math.MaxInt-1 causes the computed payload length to wrap negative and triggers a runtime panic in LargeBufferReader.Peek. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.0.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-190
    Added Reference https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/releases/tag/v0.9.0
    Added Reference https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/security/advisories/GHSA-43g7-cwr8-q3jh
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