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open-telemetry opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation — OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation: Unsafe fastelf parsing allows malformed ELF to crash agent
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0016 5.9 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation < 0.9.0 – —
TIMELINE
May 12 Reserved by GitHub_M
Jun 2 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-45676 (open-telemetry opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation). Public exploit reference added.
Jun 2 Published (CNA: GitHub_M)
Description
OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation provides eBPF instrumentation based on the OpenTelemetry standard. Prior to version 0.9.0, OBI's replacement ELF parser trusts section offsets, counts, and string offsets from the executable file. A crafted local ELF can make OBI dereference invalid section pointers or slice past string tables, causing the agent to panic while determining the process language. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.0.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| May 12, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by GitHub_M |
| June 2, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-45676 (open-telemetry opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation). Public exploit reference added. |
| June 2, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: GitHub_M) |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 1 row
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| open-telemetry | opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation | — | < 0.9.0 | — |
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