Vulnerability Reportotel/opentelemetry-collector:0.162.0

otel/opentelemetry-collector:0.162.0
digestsha256:310a800ad69ee430e7c541796852a242c9c7db97aaad4daa5ccf843c525fbdb2

Executive Summary

Last scanned:

Threat Score
25/100NEEDS ATTENTION
Reputation
RELIABLE

This image is acceptable for production, but remediating the identified vulnerabilities is recommended to reduce the attack surface. The image is a popular, digest-pinned otel collector with a reliable reputation, and its main risk is CVE-2026-78669, an HTTP/2 denial-of-service issue affecting the exposed gRPC/HTTP2 receivers with severity 6.38, below the high-severity threshold. There are 15 exposed findings in total, but only 2 reach severity 6.0 or higher and none reach 7.0, while the 4 post-exploit-only findings max out at 2.29. Blocking untrusted network access to the collector's gRPC/HTTP2 receivers fully eliminates exposure to CVE-2026-78669.

Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Log

19 total
CVE IDAdjusted SeverityPackageExploit ProbabilityRisk Context
CVE-2026-78669MEDIUM6.38
golang.org/x/net
v0.59.0
fixed in 0.60.0
0.6%
Theoretical Threat
Directly ExposedContext importance: HIGH
CVE-2026-78669MEDIUM6.38
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.6%
Theoretical Threat
Directly ExposedContext importance: HIGH
CVE-2026-97031MEDIUM5.1
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.4%
Theoretical Threat
Directly ExposedContext importance: MEDIUM
CVE-2026-97032MEDIUM4.02
golang.org/x/net
v0.59.0
fixed in 0.60.0
0.4%
Theoretical Threat
Directly ExposedContext importance: MEDIUM
CVE-2026-97032MEDIUM4.02
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.4%
Theoretical Threat
Directly ExposedContext importance: MEDIUM
CVE-2026-78663LOW3.6
golang.org/x/net
v0.59.0
fixed in 0.60.0
0.6%
Theoretical Threat
Directly ExposedContext importance: MEDIUM
CVE-2026-78663LOW3.6
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.6%
Theoretical Threat
Directly ExposedContext importance: MEDIUM
CVE-2026-56857LOW2.8
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.5%
Theoretical Threat
Directly Exposed
CVE-2026-78667LOW2.29
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.4%
Theoretical Threat
Post-Exploit
CVE-2026-56866LOW1.99
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.3%
Theoretical Threat
Post-Exploit
CVE-2026-94439LOW1.99
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.3%
Theoretical Threat
Post-Exploit
CVE-2026-94448LOW1.87
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.2%
Theoretical Threat
Post-Exploit
GO-2026-5932NONE0
golang.org/x/crypto
v0.57.0
No fix yet
—
Not Applicable
CVE-2026-78659NONE0
golang.org/x/net
v0.59.0
fixed in 0.60.0
0.6%
Theoretical Threat
Not Applicable
CVE-2026-78660NONE0
golang.org/x/net
v0.59.0
fixed in 0.60.0
0.3%
Theoretical Threat
Not Applicable
CVE-2026-78659NONE0
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.6%
Theoretical Threat
Not Applicable
CVE-2026-78660NONE0
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.3%
Theoretical Threat
Not Applicable
CVE-2026-94440NONE0
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.4%
Theoretical Threat
Not Applicable
CVE-2026-97030NONE0
stdlib
v1.26.8
fixed in 1.26.9, 1.27.2
0.2%
Theoretical Threat
Not Applicable

Reachability analysis

Which CVEs are actually reachable — is the vulnerable code even linked and callable.

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Runtime verification

Live-container probes: default user, writable paths, capabilities, exposed ports.

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Supply chain analysis

Base-image lineage, package provenance and signatures — nothing slipped in unnoticed.

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Hardening recommendations

A step-by-step hardened build plan, with parity tests proving nothing breaks.

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