CVE-2025-22868VulnerabilityPublished 17 Jun 2025Updated 26 Oct 2026

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry 3.6.0 release

Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database

Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 18:42 UTC

Severity

High

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.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 17 Jun 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 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Red Hat Product Security Red Hat	Affected >=3.6.0 <=3.6.1 Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.6.0 amd64 registry.redhat.io/rhosdt/opentelemetry-operator-bundle@sha256:f08e30a5035f1c1bb79d62bc3db9ab19b9b8652c32b8c365e92ceab8abd01090_amd64 Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.6.1 Red Hat ACM Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.12 for RHEL 9 rhacm2/volsync-rhel9@sha256:fa18cbf3efd16da8e961ab1077fe5af57aa041f09a38220ae733a2bb5c1ad6d0_amd64	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

The vendor advisory recommends pre-validating any JWT payloads passed to the go-jose library to ensure they do not contain an excessive number of '.' characters, thereby preventing memory exhaustion. There is no explicit mention of an official patch or update fixing this issue in the advisory. Users should apply this mitigation and monitor Red Hat's official channels for any forthcoming patches or updates.

Description

Breaking changes: * Nothing Deprecations: * Nothing Technology Preview features: * Cumulative-to-Delta Processor Enhancements: * The following Technology Preview features reach General Availability: * Kafka Exporter * Attributes Processor * Resource Processor * Prometheus Receiver * With this update, the OpenTelemetry Collector can read TLS certificates in the `tss2` format according to the TPM Software Stack specification (TSS) 2.0 of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 Library by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). * With this update, the Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry Operator automatically upgrades all OpenTelemetryCollector custom resources during its startup. The Operator reconciles all managed instances during its startup. If there is an error, the Operator retries the upgrade at exponential backoff. If an upgrade fails, the Operator will retry the upgrade again when it restarts. Bug fixes: * Nothing Known issues: There is currently a known issue with the following exporters: * AWS CloudWatch Logs Exporter * AWS EMF Exporter * AWS X-Ray Exporter This known issue affects deployments that use the optional endpoint field of the exporter configuration in the Collector custom resource. Not specifying the protocol, such as https://, as part of the endpoint value results in the unsupported protocol scheme error. Workaround: Include the protocol, such as https://, as part of the endpoint value.

Impact

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending numerous malformed JWT tokens with many '.' characters, causing excessive memory consumption and potentially triggering a denial of service in affected OpenTelemetry components. The impact is limited to availability disruption; confidentiality and integrity are not affected.

Summary

CVE-2025-22868 is a denial of service vulnerability in the golang.org/x/oauth2/jws package's token parsing logic, specifically due to the use of strings.Split(token, ".") on JWT tokens. Maliciously crafted tokens with a large number of '.' characters can cause excessive memory consumption, leading to memory exhaustion and service disruption. This vulnerability affects the Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry 3.6.0, including Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing components. The Red Hat advisory recommends mitigating this by pre-validating payloads passed to the go-jose library to ensure they do not contain an excessive number of '.' characters. The advisory does not explicitly confirm a patch but provides guidance on mitigation and references related bug reports and CVEs.

CWE-1286Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input (opens in a new tab)
Base weakness
The product receives input that is expected to be well-formed - i.e., to comply with a certain syntax - but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input complies with the syntax.
Implementation · Input Validation
Assume all input is malicious. Use an "accept known good" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
XML Security (opens in a new tab)
Mass Assignment (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V13.3.1 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.4 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.3 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
SQL Injection (opens in a new tab)
NoSQL Injection (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).
CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #25
The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated.
Requirements
Clearly specify the minimum and maximum expectations for capabilities, and dictate which behaviors are acceptable when resource allocation reaches limits.
Architecture and Design
Limit the amount of resources that are accessible to unprivileged users. Set per-user limits for resources. Allow the system administrator to define these limits. Be careful to avoid CWE-410.
Architecture and Design
Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture. The best protection is to limit the amount of resources that an unauthorized user can cause to be expended.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V8.1.4 (opens in a new tab)
V13.4.1 (opens in a new tab)
V11.1.4 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XML Ping of the Death (opens in a new tab)
Exponential Data Expansion (opens in a new tab)
Serialized Data Parameter Blowup (opens in a new tab)
Serialized Data with Nested Payloads (opens in a new tab)
Oversized Serialized Data Payloads (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).
CWE-405Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) (opens in a new tab)
Class weakness
The product does not properly control situations in which an adversary can cause the product to consume or produce excessive resources without requiring the adversary to invest equivalent work or otherwise prove authorization, i.e., the adversary's influence is "asymmetric."
Architecture and Design
An application must make resources available to a client commensurate with the client's access level.
Architecture and Design
An application must, at all times, keep track of allocated resources and meter their usage appropriately.
System Configuration
Consider disabling resource-intensive algorithms on the server side, such as Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
File Upload (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V12.1.1 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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What to do

Affected software

Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 14 Aug 2026, 21:59 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-1286, CWE-770, CWE-405

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