# CVE-2026-50273: Datadog .NET Tracer: Improper parsing of W3C baggage headers may lead to DoS

- Also known as: GHSA-38WR-VPC7-2MP4
- 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: 3.43.0
- Published: 2026-07-17 · Updated: 2026-07-17

## Affected

- DataDog dd-trace-dotnet: fixed in 3.43.0
- Datadog.Trace (NuGet): fixed in 3.43.0
- Datadog.Trace.OpenTracing (NuGet): fixed in 3.43.0

## Description

Datadog .NET Tracer is a client library for Datadog APM for .NET applications. Prior to 3.43.0, Datadog tracing libraries that implement W3C baggage propagation parse incoming baggage HTTP headers without enforcing DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_ITEMS or DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_BYTES on extraction, allowing a remote unauthenticated attacker to send a baggage header with many comma-separated key-value pairs or one very large value and cause unbounded CPU and memory consumption in services with baggage propagation enabled. This issue is fixed in version 3.43.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on DataDog dd-trace-dotnet, Datadog.Trace, Datadog.Trace.OpenTracing, upgrade to a fixed version (3.43.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-dotnet/security/advisories/GHSA-38wr-vpc7-2mp4
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-dotnet/pull/8555
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-dotnet/commit/38092e0d41a36decbe649e048e48ae1b1607292f
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-dotnet/releases/tag/v3.43.0

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