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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Change Age Confidence
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk v1.40.0 → v1.43.0 age confidence

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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

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v1.42.0: /v0.64.0/v0.18.0/v0.0.16

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Added
  • Add go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.40.0 package.
    The package contains semantic conventions from the v1.40.0 version of the OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions.
    See the migration documentation for information on how to upgrade from go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.39.0. (#​7985)
  • Add Err and SetErr on Record in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log to attach an error and set record exception attributes in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log/sdk. (#​7924)
Changed
  • TracerProvider.ForceFlush in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace joins errors together and continues iteration through SpanProcessors as opposed to returning the first encountered error without attempting exports on subsequent SpanProcessors. (#​7856)
Fixed
  • Fix missing request.GetBody in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp to correctly handle HTTP2 GOAWAY frame. (#​7931)
  • Fix semconv v1.39.0 generated metric helpers skipping required attributes when extra attributes were empty. (#​7964)
  • Preserve W3C TraceFlags bitmask (including the random Trace ID flag) during trace context extraction and injection in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation. (#​7834)
Removed
  • Drop support for [Go 1.24]. (#​7984)
What's Changed
New Contributors

Full Changelog: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go@v1.41.0...v1.42.0

v1.41.0: /v0.63.0/v0.17.0/v0.0.15

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This release is the last to support Go 1.24. The next release will require at least Go 1.25.

Added
Fixed
  • Update Baggage in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation and Parse and New in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage to comply with W3C Baggage specification limits. New and Parse now return partial baggage along with an error when limits are exceeded. Errors from baggage extraction are reported to the global error handler. (#​7880)
What's Changed
New Contributors

Full Changelog: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go@v1.40.0...v1.41.0

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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

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Package Change
go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.40.0 -> v1.43.0
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.40.0 -> v1.43.0
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.40.0 -> v1.43.0
golang.org/x/sys v0.40.0 -> v0.42.0

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