CVE-2024-36129 | OpenTelemetry Collector has a Denial of Service via Zip/Decompression Bomb sent over HTTP or gRPC

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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.

Published: 2024-06-05 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-36129 is rated High Exploit Risk (76.6/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.40%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2024-36129

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-36129

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-01-19 3.22% 2.40% -0.82%
2 2026-01-18 2.12% 3.22% +1.10%
3 2025-11-21 — 2.12% —

Full EPSS history (17 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-36129

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
8.2 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 3.9 4.2 [email protected]
7.5 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 3.9 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-36129

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2024-36129

GHSA-c74f-6mfw-mm4v · Severity: high · Ecosystem: go — Denial of Service via Zip/Decompression Bomb sent over HTTP or gRPC

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-36129

vendor priority summary link
redhat high — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36129

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-36129

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
opentelemetry configgrpc < 0.102.1 cpe:2.3:a:opentelemetry:configgrpc:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
opentelemetry confighttp < 0.102.0 cpe:2.3:a:opentelemetry:confighttp:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
opentelemetry opentelemetry_collector < 0.102.1 cpe:2.3:a:opentelemetry:opentelemetry_collector:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-36129

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