Medium severity · published Jul 17, 2026
CVE-2026-48504
OpenTelemetry Rust: Unbounded memory allocation in W3C Baggage propagation
5.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 36% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
opentelemetry-rust · open-telemetry
< 0.32.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48504
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48504
github.com
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust/commit/a389ca6b3e416416bc8fc9b01cf6076b9182ed14
github.com
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust/security/advisories/GHSA-w9wp-h8wv-79jx
