Medium 5.9Published Jun 2, 2026

CVE-2026-45680OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation: Unbounded BPF internal metrics replay can exhaust CPU

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 7:30 PM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation provides eBPF instrumentation based on the OpenTelemetry standard. Prior to version 0.9.0, OBI replays BPF probe hits into histogram observations by looping once per recorded run count. On busy systems, the run-count delta can become very large, causing the metrics exporter to spend excessive CPU time in a tight loop every collection interval. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.0.

CVSS: 5.9 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-400, CWE-834
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jun 3, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

open-telemetry opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation open_telemetry:opentelemetry_ebpf_instrumentation (from the name)	before 0.9.0	CNA record
opentelemetry ebpf_instrumentation opentelemetry:ebpf_instrumentation	before 0.9.0	NVD

References

References

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/security/advisories/GHSA-89c6-vpcj-7vj4	x-refsource-confirm, exploit, vendor-advisory
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/releases/tag/v0.9.0	x-refsource-misc, product, release-notes

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