RHSA-2026:53415 — Security Advisory

An update for opentelemetry-collector is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Collector with the supported components for a Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry

Security Fix(es):

• github.com/prometheus/prometheus: Prometheus: Denial of Service via uncontrolled memory allocation in remote read endpoint (CVE-2026-42154)

• github.com/prometheus/prometheus: Prometheus: Information disclosure of Azure OAuth client secret via config API (CVE-2026-42151)

• apache-thrift: Apache Thrift: Denial of Service via multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-43870)

• net: golang: Go net package: Denial of Service via long CNAME response in LookupCNAME (CVE-2026-33811)

• golang.org/x/net/idna: golang: net/http: golang.org/x/net/idna: Privilege escalation via incorrect Punycode label processing (CVE-2026-39821)

• golang.org/x/net/html: golang: golang.org/x/net/html: Cross-Site Scripting via HTML parsing bypass (CVE-2026-27136)

• golang.org/x/net/html: golang.org/x/net/html: Arbitrary code execution via Cross-Site Scripting (CVE-2026-25681)

• crypto/x509: golang: golang crypto/x509: Denial of Service via excessive processing of DNS SAN entries (CVE-2026-27145)

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.