CVE 8.4 HIGH

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation: Privileged Java agent injection allows arbitrary host file overwrite via untrusted TMPDIR_CVE-2026-41433

8.4 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Description

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation provides eBPF instrumentation based on the OpenTelemetry standard. From 0.4.0 to before 0.8.0, a flaw in the Java agent injection path allows a local attacker controlling a Java workload to overwrite arbitrary host files when Java injection is enabled and OBI is running with elevated privileges. The injector trusted TMPDIR from the target process and used unsafe file creation semantics, enabling both filesystem boundary escape and symlink-based file clobbering. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.0.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-41433
Source GitHub_M
Published Apr 24, 2026 at 19:26

Affected Product

Vendor open-telemetry
Product opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation
Version >= 0.4.0, < 0.8.0
Affected Versions open-telemetry opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation >= 0.4.0, < 0.8.0

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