CVE-2026-81869
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-81869, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-09-16

Last updated on: 2026-09-17

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. From version 1.10.0 until 1.33.0, the sdk/trace/span.go attribute truncation path can fail to enforce AttributeValueLengthLimit for string and string-slice attributes containing the valid Unicode replacement character U+FFFD. safeTruncateValidUTF8 treats the valid replacement rune as invalid UTF-8 and returns the original input, while strings.ToValidUTF8 leaves that valid rune unchanged, so a second safeTruncate attempt can also return the oversized value. An attacker who controls span attribute content can retain values longer than the configured limit, increasing per-span memory use and weakening denial-of-service protection in the instrumented process. This issue is fixed in version 1.33.0.

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Published
2026-09-16
Last Modified
2026-09-17
Generated
2026-09-20
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
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CWE ID Description
CWE-400 The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
CWE-176 The product does not properly handle when an input contains Unicode encoding.

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