CVE-2026-48504

MEDIUM

OpenTelemetry Rust: Unbounded memory allocation in W3C Baggage propagation

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

OpenTelemetry Rust is the Rust OpenTelemetry implementation. In 0.32.0 and earlier, BaggagePropagator::extract_with_context in opentelemetry_sdk did not enforce W3C Baggage size limits before parsing an inbound baggage header, so a large attacker-controlled header could cause unnecessary CPU work and short-lived heap allocations while parsing entries later discarded by the SDK's baggage storage limits. Services that accept untrusted inbound propagation headers may experience increased per-request resource usage when processing oversized baggage headers. This issue is fixed in version 0.32.1.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0030
EPSS Percentile 22.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (1)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust < 0.32.1
Published Jul 17, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 18, 2026