CVE-2023-47108 DoS vulnerability in otelgrpc (uncontrolled resource consumption) due to unbound cardinality metrics

2023-11-1018:31:33

CWE-770

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

vulnerability

otelgrpc

dos

unbounded cardinality

opentelemetry-go

grpc

memory exhaustion

malicious requests

fix

workaround

instrumentation

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

38.0%

JSON

OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib is a collection of third-party packages for OpenTelemetry-Go. Prior to version 0.46.0, the grpc Unary Server Interceptor out of the box adds labels net.peer.sock.addr and net.peer.sock.port that have unbound cardinality. It leads to the server’s potential memory exhaustion when many malicious requests are sent. An attacker can easily flood the peer address and port for requests. Version 0.46.0 contains a fix for this issue. As a workaround to stop being affected, a view removing the attributes can be used. The other possibility is to disable grpc metrics instrumentation by passing otelgrpc.WithMeterProvider option with noop.NewMeterProvider.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "open-telemetry",
    "product": "opentelemetry-go-contrib",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "< 0.46.0",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References

github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib/blob/9d4eb7e7706038b07d33f83f76afbe13f53d171d/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc/interceptor.go#L327

github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib/blob/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc/v0.45.0/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc/config.go#L138

github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib/commit/b44dfc9092b157625a5815cb437583cee663333b

github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib/pull/4322

github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib/security/advisories/GHSA-8pgv-569h-w5rw

pkg.go.dev/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/noop#NewMeterProvider