CVE-2026-48504 PUBLISHED

OpenTelemetry Rust: Unbounded memory allocation in W3C Baggage propagation

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 21.05.2026 Published: 17.07.2026 Updated: 17.07.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor open-telemetry
Product opentelemetry-rust
Versions
  • Version < 0.32.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

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