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This PR contains the following updates:

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go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk v1.42.0v1.43.0 age confidence

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GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2026-39883

Summary

The fix for GHSA-9h8m-3fm2-qjrq (CVE-2026-24051) changed the Darwin ioreg command to use an absolute path but left the BSD kenv command using a bare name, allowing the same PATH hijacking attack on BSD and Solaris platforms.

Root Cause

sdk/resource/host_id.go line 42:

if result, err := r.execCommand("kenv", "-q", "smbios.system.uuid"); err == nil {

Compare with the fixed Darwin path at line 58:

result, err := r.execCommand("/usr/sbin/ioreg", "-rd1", "-c", "IOPlatformExpertDevice")

The execCommand helper at sdk/resource/host_id_exec.go uses exec.Command(name, arg...) which searches $PATH when the command name contains no path separator.

Affected platforms (per build tag in host_id_bsd.go:4): DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris.

The kenv path is reached when /etc/hostid does not exist (line 38-40), which is common on FreeBSD systems.

Attack

  1. Attacker has local access to a system running a Go application that imports go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk
  2. Attacker places a malicious kenv binary earlier in $PATH
  3. Application initializes OpenTelemetry resource detection at startup
  4. hostIDReaderBSD.read() calls exec.Command("kenv", ...) which resolves to the malicious binary
  5. Arbitrary code executes in the context of the application

Same attack vector and impact as CVE-2026-24051.

Suggested Fix

Use the absolute path:

if result, err := r.execCommand("/bin/kenv", "-q", "smbios.system.uuid"); err == nil {

On FreeBSD, kenv is located at /bin/kenv.


opentelemetry-go: BSD kenv command not using absolute path enables PATH hijacking

CVE-2026-39883 / GHSA-hfvc-g4fc-pqhx

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Summary

The fix for GHSA-9h8m-3fm2-qjrq (CVE-2026-24051) changed the Darwin ioreg command to use an absolute path but left the BSD kenv command using a bare name, allowing the same PATH hijacking attack on BSD and Solaris platforms.

Root Cause

sdk/resource/host_id.go line 42:

if result, err := r.execCommand("kenv", "-q", "smbios.system.uuid"); err == nil {

Compare with the fixed Darwin path at line 58:

result, err := r.execCommand("/usr/sbin/ioreg", "-rd1", "-c", "IOPlatformExpertDevice")

The execCommand helper at sdk/resource/host_id_exec.go uses exec.Command(name, arg...) which searches $PATH when the command name contains no path separator.

Affected platforms (per build tag in host_id_bsd.go:4): DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris.

The kenv path is reached when /etc/hostid does not exist (line 38-40), which is common on FreeBSD systems.

Attack
  1. Attacker has local access to a system running a Go application that imports go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk
  2. Attacker places a malicious kenv binary earlier in $PATH
  3. Application initializes OpenTelemetry resource detection at startup
  4. hostIDReaderBSD.read() calls exec.Command("kenv", ...) which resolves to the malicious binary
  5. Arbitrary code executes in the context of the application

Same attack vector and impact as CVE-2026-24051.

Suggested Fix

Use the absolute path:

if result, err := r.execCommand("/bin/kenv", "-q", "smbios.system.uuid"); err == nil {

On FreeBSD, kenv is located at /bin/kenv.

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 7.3 / 10 (High)
  • Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

This data is provided by OSV and the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).


Release Notes

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go (go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk)

v1.43.0: /v0.65.0/v0.19.0

Compare Source

Added
  • Add IsRandom and WithRandom on TraceFlags, and IsRandom on SpanContext in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace
    for W3C Trace Context Level 2 Random Trace ID Flag support. (#​8012)
  • Add service detection with WithService in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource. (#​7642)
  • Add DefaultWithContext and EnvironmentWithContext in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource to support plumbing context.Context through default and environment detectors. (#​8051)
  • Support attributes with empty value (attribute.EMPTY) in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc. (#​8038)
  • Support attributes with empty value (attribute.EMPTY) in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc. (#​8038)
  • Support attributes with empty value (attribute.EMPTY) in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploggrpc. (#​8038)
  • Support attributes with empty value (attribute.EMPTY) in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp. (#​8038)
  • Support attributes with empty value (attribute.EMPTY) in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp. (#​8038)
  • Support attributes with empty value (attribute.EMPTY) in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp. (#​8038)
  • Support attributes with empty value (attribute.EMPTY) in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/metricdata/metricdatatest. (#​8038)
  • Add support for per-series start time tracking for cumulative metrics in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric.
    Set OTEL_GO_X_PER_SERIES_START_TIMESTAMPS=true to enable. (#​8060)
  • Add WithCardinalityLimitSelector for metric reader for configuring cardinality limits specific to the instrument kind. (#​7855)
Changed
  • Introduce the EMPTY Type in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute to reflect that an empty value is now a valid value, with INVALID remaining as a deprecated alias of EMPTY. (#​8038)
  • Refactor slice handling in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute to optimize short slice values with fixed-size fast paths. (#​8039)
  • Improve performance of span metric recording in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace by returning early if self-observability is not enabled. (#​8067)
  • Improve formatting of metric data diffs in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/metricdata/metricdatatest. (#​8073)
Deprecated
  • Deprecate INVALID in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute. Use EMPTY instead. (#​8038)
Fixed
  • Return spec-compliant TraceIdRatioBased description. This is a breaking behavioral change, but it is necessary to
    make the implementation spec-compliant. (#​8027)
  • Fix a race condition in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric where the lastvalue aggregation could collect the value 0 even when no zero-value measurements were recorded. (#​8056)
  • Limit HTTP response body to 4 MiB in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp to mitigate excessive memory usage caused by a misconfigured or malicious server.
    Responses exceeding the limit are treated as non-retryable errors. (#​8108)
  • Limit HTTP response body to 4 MiB in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp to mitigate excessive memory usage caused by a misconfigured or malicious server.
    Responses exceeding the limit are treated as non-retryable errors. (#​8108)
  • Limit HTTP response body to 4 MiB in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp to mitigate excessive memory usage caused by a misconfigured or malicious server.
    Responses exceeding the limit are treated as non-retryable errors. (#​8108)
  • WithHostID detector in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource to use full path for kenv command on BSD. (#​8113)
  • Fix missing request.GetBody in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp to correctly handle HTTP2 GOAWAY frame. (#​8096)
What's Changed
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Medium Risk
Dependency bump updates core observability plumbing (metrics, tracing, resources) and includes behavioral changes (e.g., attribute empty values and metric start timestamps) that could affect emitted telemetry. Risk is mitigated by being a vendor/library upgrade, but it touches widely-used instrumentation paths.

Overview
Updates vendored OpenTelemetry Go modules to v1.43.0 (including otel, otel/sdk, otel/trace, otel/metric) and refreshes go.sum/vendor/modules.txt accordingly.

Includes the security fix for BSD host ID detection by executing kenv via an absolute path (/bin/kenv) to prevent PATH hijacking.

Pulls in upstream SDK changes: attributes now treat the zero-value as a valid empty value (EMPTY, with INVALID deprecated), metric SDK gains optional per-series start timestamps via OTEL_GO_X_PER_SERIES_START_TIMESTAMPS, and readers can configure per-instrument-kind cardinality limits via WithCardinalityLimitSelector. Tracing adds the random trace flag helpers and adjusts sampler descriptions to be spec-compliant.

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ℹ️ Artifact update notice

File name: go.mod

In order to perform the update(s) described in the table above, Renovate ran the go get command, which resulted in the following additional change(s):

  • 4 additional dependencies were updated

Details:

Package Change
go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.42.0 -> v1.43.0
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.42.0 -> v1.43.0
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric v1.42.0 -> v1.43.0
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.42.0 -> v1.43.0

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| datasource | package                      | from    | to      |
| ---------- | ---------------------------- | ------- | ------- |
| go         | go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk | v1.42.0 | v1.43.0 |


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