# CVE-2026-50272: dd-trace: Improper parsing of W3C baggage headers may lead to DoS

- Also known as: GHSA-WXQQ-GCQ8-C443
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.100.0
- Published: 2026-07-17 · Updated: 2026-07-21

## Affected

- DataDog dd-trace-js: fixed in 5.100.0
- dd-trace (npm): fixed in 5.100.0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on DataDog dd-trace-js, dd-trace, upgrade to a fixed version (5.100.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/security/advisories/GHSA-wxqq-gcq8-c443
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/pull/8255
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/commit/a7d4c0da05f67cde05a99272b725a317c461d0e6
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/releases/tag/v5.100.0

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