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CVE-2026-48504GHSA-W9WP-H8WV-79JX

OpenTelemetry Rust: Unbounded memory allocation in W3C Baggage propagation

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.32.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • open-telemetry opentelemetry-rust

    fixed in 0.32.1

  • opentelemetry_sdkcrates.io

    fixed in 0.32.1

References 2

GitHub · open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust