Prometheus exporter process crash via malformed HTTP request

Description

A single malformed HTTP request crashes any Node.js process running the OpenTelemetry JS Prometheus exporter. The metrics endpoint (default 0.0.0.0:9464) has no error handling around URL parsing, so a request with an invalid URI causes an uncaught TypeError that terminates the process.

Recommendation

Update the @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 0.75.0
• Patched version(s): 0.75.0

References

• GHSA-q7rr-3cgh-j5r3
• CVE-2026-44902
• CWE-755
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Prometheus exporter process crash via malformed HTTP request - @opentelemetry/exporter-prometheus - CVE-2026-44902
• Prometheus exporter process crash via malformed HTTP request - @opentelemetry/sdk-node - CVE-2026-44902
• Electerm's full process.env exposed to renderer via window.pre.env - CVE-2026-43942
• Undici has an unbounded decompression chain in HTTP responses on Node.js Fetch API via Content-Encoding leads to resourc - CVE-2026-22036

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npm

@opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node