CVE-2023-39951
MediumCVSS 6.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk47th percentile - higher than 47% of all known CVEs
Summary
OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation prior to version 1.28.0 has an issue related to the instrumentation of Java applications using AWS SDK v2 with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) v1 API. When instrumenting POST requests to SES, query parameters are inserted into the `url.path` field, leading to the email content being present in telemetry metadata.
Risk Assessment
The exposure of email content may lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information, posing a significant risk to the organization.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation to version 1.28.0 or later to mitigate the risk of data exposure.
Original NVD description (English source)
OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation provides OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation and instrumentation libraries for Java. OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation prior to version 1.28.0 contains an issue related to the instrumentation of Java applications using the AWS SDK v2 with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) v1 API. When SES POST requests are instrumented, the query parameters of the request are inserted into the trace `url.path` field. This behavior leads to the http body, containing the email subject and message, to be present in the trace request url metadata. Any user using a version before 1.28.0 of OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation to instrument AWS SDK v2 call to SES’s v1 SendEmail API is affected. The e-mail content sent to SES may end up in telemetry backend. This exposes the e-mail content to unintended audiences. The issue can be mitigated by updating OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation to version 1.28.0 or later.