Affected: open-telemetry opentelemetry-java, io.opentelemetry opentelemetry-api, io.opentelemetry opentelemetry-extension-trace-propagators, Red Hat Data Grid 8.6.2, Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8.2, Red Hat Offline Knowledge Portal 1.2.12, Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.29, Red Hat Exploit Intelligence, Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers and 10 more

opentelemetry-java is the Java implementation of the OpenTelemetry API for recording telemetry, and SDK for managing telemetry recorded by the API. Prior to 1.62.0, a vulnerability affects the baggage propagation implementation in opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-extension-trace-propagators. Parsing oversized baggage causes unbounded memory allocation and CPU consumption. Because baggage is automatically re-injected into every outgoing request, the effect can fan out to downstream services that never received the original malicious request. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.62.0.