CVE-2026-29181 PUBLISHED

OpenTelemetry-Go multi-value `baggage` header extraction causes excessive allocations (remote dos amplification)

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 04.03.2026 Published: 07.04.2026 Updated: 08.04.2026

OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. From 1.36.0 to 1.40.0, multi-value baggage: header extraction parses each header field-value independently and aggregates members across values. This allows an attacker to amplify cpu and allocations by sending many baggage: header lines, even when each individual value is within the 8192-byte per-value parse limit. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.41.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor open-telemetry
Product opentelemetry-go
Versions
  • Version >= 1.36.0, < 1.41.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

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