# CVE-2026-40894

> Vulnerability · severity: **MEDIUM** (CVSS 5.3).

## Description

OpenTelemetry dotnet is a dotnet telemetry framework. In OpenTelemetry.Api 0.5.0-beta.2 to 1.15.2 and OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Propagators 1.3.1 to 1.15.2, The implementation details of the baggage, B3 and Jaeger processing code in the OpenTelemetry.Api and OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Propagators NuGet packages can allocate excessive memory when parsing which could create a potential denial of service (DoS) in the consuming application. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.3.

## Key facts

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-40894
- **Published:** 2026-04-23
- **CVSS severity:** MEDIUM
- **CVSS base score:** 5.3
- **CWE codes:** CWE-789

## Affected products

- `opentelemetry:opentelemetry`
- `opentelemetry:opentelemetry.api`
- `opentelemetry:opentelemetry.extensions.propagators`

## Primary sources

- NIST NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40894

## Citation

> AI Analytics. CVE-2026-40894. Retrieved 2026-07-20 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/cve/CVE-2026-40894. Derived from NIST NVD. Licensed CC0.

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