CVE-2026-48504CWE-770

OpenTelemetry Rust: Unbounded memory allocation in W3C Baggage propagation

Medium · published July 17, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
35.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00418 · 35.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-07-17T20:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 JUL 20:13Z
    OpenTelemetry Rust: Unbounded memory allocation in W3C Baggage propagation
    cvelistv5