GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-gpwf-4h98-v82q datadog-opentelemetry has unbounded W3C tracestate parsing that may lead to DoS

HIGH Published 2026-08-28 Modified 2026-08-28 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-54788
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
datadog-opentelemetry
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-770
Reviewed
2026-08-28

Affected packages

• crates.io datadog-opentelemetry: >= 0.1.0, < 0.3.3 → fixed in 0.3.3

Description

Impact Datadog tracing libraries that implement W3C Trace Context (`tracecontext`) propagation parse the incoming `tracestate` header without enforcing a size cap on the Datadog vendor entry (`dd=...`). The `dd=` value contains semicolon-separated `key:value` pairs, and the parser allocates a hash-map entry for each pair. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a `tracestate` header whose `dd=` member is arbitrarily large (or contains an arbitrarily large number of pairs), forcing unbounded CPU and memory consumption per request and enabling a remote Denial of Service. `tracecontext` extraction is enabled by default in affected tracers, so any internet-facing service instrumented with an affected version is exposed unless `tracecontext` has been explicitly removed from the propagation style configuration. Patches This is resolved in version 0.3.3 and later of the `dd-trace-rs` library. Workarounds If you cannot upgrade immediately: 1. Disable `tracecontext` extraction by setting `DD_TRACE_PROPAGATION_STYLE_EXTRACT` to a value that does not include `tracecontext` (for example, `datadog`). 2. Cap the maximum HTTP request header size at an upstream proxy or web server.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-54788 dd-trace-rs provides Datadog application performance monitoring for Rust. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References