CVE-2026-45685 — Security Box Score

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CVE-2026-45685HIGH

open-telemetry opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation — OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation: MongoDB parser panics on malformed wire messages

  AV  AC  PR  UI  S  C  I  A   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   N   L   N   N  U  N  N  H    7.5   .0046   38.4     —

AFFECTED
  Product                             Versions             Fixed
  opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation  >= 0.1.0, < 0.9.0 –  —

TIMELINE
  May 13  Reserved by GitHub_M
  Jun 2   EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-45685 (open-telemetry opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation). Public exploit reference added.
  Jun 2   Published (CNA: GitHub_M)

CWE-20, CWE-248, CWE-704 · CNA: GitHub_M · CVSS v3.1 · 2 references · NVD status: Analyzed

Description

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation provides eBPF instrumentation based on the OpenTelemetry standard. From version 0.1.0 to before version 0.9.0, malformed MongoDB wire messages can trigger uncaught panics in the MongoDB TCP parser, allowing a remote unauthenticated attacker to crash the telemetry agent and cause a denial of service. The parser operates on raw attacker-controlled network payloads before the input is fully validated, so a single crafted message can terminate telemetry collection for the affected process or node. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.0.

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
Date	Event	Detail
May 13, 2026	Reserved	Reserved by GitHub_M
June 2, 2026	EXPLOIT PUBLISHED	EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-45685 (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	—	>= 0.1.0, < 0.9.0	—

Weaknesses

CWE-20 · CWE-248 · CWE-704

References (2)

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/releases/tag/v0.9.0 [Product, Release Notes]
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/security/advisories/GHSA-j8p6-96vp-f3r9 [Exploit, Vendor Advisory]

Authoritative record: CVE-2026-45685 at cve.org

Vendors: open-telemetry

Weaknesses: CWE-20 · CWE-248 · CWE-704

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This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2026-45685 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Wednesday, August 19, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.