Red Hat Security Advisory: opentelemetry-collector security update
Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database
Mentioned vulnerabilities
Not known to be exploited : upgrade to 9.6.0 soon.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 06:26 UTC
Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 58% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
- Patch
- Available – fixed in 9.6.0
Exploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 13 May 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.
What to do
Upgrade Red Hat to 9.6.0.
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
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| Red Hat Product Security Red Hat | Affected
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AI-suggested
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.
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.
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7407 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2347423 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2348366 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352914 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2354195 (opens in a new tab)
- security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_7407.json (opens in a new tab)