CVE-2026-50274

dd-trace-go: Improper parsing of W3C baggage headers may lead to DoS

Published Jul 17, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Datadog dd-trace-go is a Go client library for Datadog application performance monitoring, profiling, and security monitoring. Prior to 2.8.1, Datadog tracing libraries that implement W3C baggage propagation parse incoming baggage HTTP headers without enforcing DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_ITEMS or DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_BYTES limits on the extract path. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a request whose baggage header contains an arbitrarily large number of comma-separated key-value pairs or a single very large value, causing unbounded CPU and memory consumption and enabling a remote denial of service against HTTP services with baggage propagation enabled. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.1.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-74j5-xf3v-crq8 dd-trace-go: Improper parsing of W3C baggage headers may lead to DoS
History
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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First Time appeared Datadog
Datadog dd-trace-java
Vendors & Products Datadog
Datadog dd-trace-java
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Description Datadog dd-trace-go is a Go client library for Datadog application performance monitoring, profiling, and security monitoring. Prior to 2.8.1, Datadog tracing libraries that implement W3C baggage propagation parse incoming baggage HTTP headers without enforcing DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_ITEMS or DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_BYTES limits on the extract path. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a request whose baggage header contains an arbitrarily large number of comma-separated key-value pairs or a single very large value, causing unbounded CPU and memory consumption and enabling a remote denial of service against HTTP services with baggage propagation enabled. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.1.
Title dd-trace-go: Improper parsing of W3C baggage headers may lead to DoS
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jul 20, 2026, 3:04 PM
Reserved
Jun 4, 2026, 4:26 PM
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
Jul 17, 2026, 9:17 PM
Modified
Oct 24, 2026, 8:10 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Jul 17, 2026, 8:41 PM