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.
Affected products
opentelemetry: opentelemetry ebpf instrumentation
References3
- github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/se… ExploitThird Party Advisory
- github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/se… ExploitThird Party Advisory
- github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/re… Release Notes
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.4
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 9 · as of 13 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-22CWE-59
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