High severity · published Jul 17, 2026
CVE-2026-50272
dd-trace: Improper parsing of W3C baggage headers may lead to DoS
7.5
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
dd-trace is the Datadog APM client for Node.js. Prior to 5.100.0, W3C baggage propagation in packages/dd-trace/src/baggage.js and packages/dd-trace/src/opentracing/propagation/text_map.js parsed incoming baggage HTTP headers without enforcing DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_ITEMS or DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_BYTES on extraction. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a request whose baggage header contains an arbitrarily large number of comma-separated key-value pairs, or a single very large value, causing unbounded CPU and memory consumption and enabling a remote denial of service against any HTTP service with baggage propagation enabled. This issue is fixed in version 5.100.0.
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-trace-js · DataDog
< 5.100.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50272
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-50272
github.com
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/commit/a7d4c0da05f67cde05a99272b725a317c461d0e6
github.com
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/pull/8255
github.com
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/releases/tag/v5.100.0
github.com
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/security/advisories/GHSA-wxqq-gcq8-c443
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