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Cascading Timeout Misconfiguration in Nested RPC Call Chains : Cold-Path Replay and Backfill Correctness
GogRPCOpenTelemetryEnvoy
Problem Breakdown
The vulnerable surface is the cold path: replay, backfill, and migration jobs that process historical data at scale, which every production system runs but almost none tests. A request traverses a 6-layer call chain where each layer sets its own timeout without respecting the parent's remaining budget; a 200ms root dea…
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