Red Hat Lightwell has released io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api 1.28.0.rhlw-00002 with a backported security fix.
CVE-2026-45292: opentelemetry-java: Unbounded Memory Allocation in W3C Baggage Propagation
This patched artifact is a drop-in replacement for io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api 1.28.0 from Maven Central.