Red Hat Security Advisory: opentelemetry-collector security update
Collector with the supported components for a Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry Security Fix(es): * go-jose: Go JOSE's Parsing Vulnerable to Denial of Service (CVE-2025-27144) * golang.org/x/oauth2/jws: Unexpected memory consumption during token parsing in golang.org/x/oauth2/jws (CVE-2025-22868) * github.com/expr-lang/expr: Memory Exhaustion in Expr Parser with Unrestricted Input (CVE-2025-29786) * golang-jwt/jwt: jwt-go allows excessive memory allocation during header parsing (CVE-2025-30204) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This advisory addresses four security vulnerabilities in the Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry Collector and its supported components. The vulnerabilities include: CVE-2025-27144 in go-jose allowing denial of service via parsing; CVE-2025-22868 in golang.org/x/oauth2/jws causing unexpected memory consumption during token parsing; CVE-2025-29786 in github.com/expr-lang/expr leading to memory exhaustion with unrestricted input; and CVE-2025-30204 in golang-jwt/jwt allowing excessive memory allocation during header parsing. These vulnerabilities can cause denial of service or resource exhaustion conditions. The advisory applies to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 versions from 9.0.0 up to and including 9.8.0 across multiple architectures and update support streams.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities can lead to denial of service or memory exhaustion in affected systems running the vulnerable versions of opentelemetry-collector and its dependencies. This could degrade system availability or cause crashes due to excessive memory allocation during parsing of tokens or expressions. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated packages for opentelemetry-collector that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:7407 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. The update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 versions 9.0.0 through 9.8.0 on multiple architectures and update support streams. Applying this update mitigates the risk of denial of service and memory exhaustion issues.
Red Hat Security Advisory: opentelemetry-collector security update
Description
Collector with the supported components for a Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry Security Fix(es): * go-jose: Go JOSE's Parsing Vulnerable to Denial of Service (CVE-2025-27144) * golang.org/x/oauth2/jws: Unexpected memory consumption during token parsing in golang.org/x/oauth2/jws (CVE-2025-22868) * github.com/expr-lang/expr: Memory Exhaustion in Expr Parser with Unrestricted Input (CVE-2025-29786) * golang-jwt/jwt: jwt-go allows excessive memory allocation during header parsing (CVE-2025-30204) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Affected software
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This advisory addresses four security vulnerabilities in the Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry Collector and its supported components. The vulnerabilities include: CVE-2025-27144 in go-jose allowing denial of service via parsing; CVE-2025-22868 in golang.org/x/oauth2/jws causing unexpected memory consumption during token parsing; CVE-2025-29786 in github.com/expr-lang/expr leading to memory exhaustion with unrestricted input; and CVE-2025-30204 in golang-jwt/jwt allowing excessive memory allocation during header parsing. These vulnerabilities can cause denial of service or resource exhaustion conditions. The advisory applies to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 versions from 9.0.0 up to and including 9.8.0 across multiple architectures and update support streams.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities can lead to denial of service or memory exhaustion in affected systems running the vulnerable versions of opentelemetry-collector and its dependencies. This could degrade system availability or cause crashes due to excessive memory allocation during parsing of tokens or expressions. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated packages for opentelemetry-collector that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:7407 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. The update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 versions 9.0.0 through 9.8.0 on multiple architectures and update support streams. Applying this update mitigates the risk of denial of service and memory exhaustion issues.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:7407
- Cve Count
- 4
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-27144","CVE-2025-29786","CVE-2025-30204"]
Threat ID: 6a160971e29bf47b50639db3
Added to database: 05/26/2026, 20:58:25 UTC
Last enriched: 08/14/2026, 22:03:03 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:49 UTC
Views: 54
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