# CVE-2026-54788: dd-trace-rs: Unbounded W3C tracestate parsing may lead to DoS

- Also known as: GHSA-GPWF-4H98-V82Q
- 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: 0.3.3
- Published: 2026-08-28 · Updated: 2026-08-31

## Affected

- DataDog dd-trace-rs: from 0.1.0, fixed in 0.3.3
- datadog-opentelemetry (crates.io): from 0.1.0, fixed in 0.3.3

## Description

dd-trace-rs provides Datadog application performance monitoring for Rust. From 0.1.0 until 0.3.3, datadog-opentelemetry/src/propagation/tracecontext.rs parses the W3C tracestate header and collects every semicolon-separated key and value pair in the Datadog dd=... vendor entry into a HashMap without enforcing a pair count or entry size limit. Because tracecontext extraction is enabled by default, a remote unauthenticated attacker can send an arbitrarily large dd=... entry and force excessive CPU and memory consumption for each request, causing denial of service in an instrumented network service. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on DataDog dd-trace-rs, datadog-opentelemetry, upgrade to a fixed version (0.3.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-gpwf-4h98-v82q
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rs/pull/218
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rs/commit/77c5d185c71d0ea8103da0e6cf4cd50677ffacd2
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rs/releases/tag/datadog-opentelemetry-v0.3.3

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