CVE-2026-50272
HIGHDatadog dd-trace-js < 5.100.0 - Baggage Header Denial of Service
Title source: manualDescription
dd-trace is the Datadog APM client for Node.js. Prior to 5.100.0, W3C baggage propagation in packages/dd-trace/src/baggage.js and packages/dd-trace/src/opentracing/propagation/text_map.js parsed incoming baggage HTTP headers without enforcing DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_ITEMS or DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_BYTES on extraction. 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 any HTTP service with baggage propagation enabled. This issue is fixed in version 5.100.0.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/security/advisories/GHSA-wxqq-gcq8-c443
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/pull/8255
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/commit/a7d4c0da05f67cde05a99272b725a317c461d0e6
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/releases/tag/v5.100.0
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0044
EPSS Percentile
36.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-770
Status
published
Products (1)
DataDog/dd-trace-js
< 5.100.0
Published
Jul 17, 2026
Tracked Since
Jul 18, 2026