High severity · published Sep 14, 2026
CVE-2026-50270
dd-trace-java: Improper parsing of W3C baggage headers may lead to DoS
7.5
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
dd-trace-java is a Datadog APM client for Java. Prior to 1.62.0, W3C baggage extraction does not enforce DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_ITEMS, which defaults to 64, or DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_BYTES, which defaults to 8192, although those limits apply during baggage injection. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a baggage HTTP header containing many comma-separated key-value pairs or a single very large value. The extraction path allocates map entries while parsing the attacker-controlled header on every request, causing unbounded CPU and memory consumption in an HTTP service where the baggage propagation style is enabled, which is the default for most affected tracers. This can cause denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 1.62.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 56% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DD
dd-java-agent · com.datadoghq
< 1.62.0 · source: vendor
DD
dd-trace-java · DataDog
< 1.62.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50270
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-50270
github.com
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-java/commit/16c6a5fd1fed71cef6c35f69122f19f5ee242757
github.com
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-java/pull/11265
github.com
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-java/releases/tag/v1.62.0
github.com
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-java/security/advisories/GHSA-74xj-wh4w-vqxc
