# CVE-2026-48504: OpenTelemetry Rust: Unbounded memory allocation in W3C Baggage propagation

- Also known as: GHSA-W9WP-H8WV-79JX
- 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=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.32.1
- Published: 2026-07-17 · Updated: 2026-07-20

## Affected

- open-telemetry opentelemetry-rust: fixed in 0.32.1
- opentelemetry\_sdk (crates.io): fixed in 0.32.1

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on open-telemetry opentelemetry-rust, opentelemetry\_sdk, upgrade to a fixed version (0.32.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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

## References

- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust/security/advisories/GHSA-w9wp-h8wv-79jx
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust/commit/a389ca6b3e416416bc8fc9b01cf6076b9182ed14

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