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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-128086 EUVD-2026-125716GHSA-rrfc-gjm9-cgrj

OpenTelemetry-Go: Eager W3C baggage-property materialization causes bounded memory-allocation amplification

Published Nov 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. From version 1.0.0-RC1 until version 1.47.0, baggage.Parse and propagation.Baggage.Extract eagerly materialize every W3C baggage property through parseMember, grow property slices, serialize members, and copy properties into internal/baggage.Item. A valid densely populated baggage header can therefore cause allocation traffic and retained memory disproportionate to its bounded input size. Remote impact requires baggage extraction to be enabled, attacker-controlled input to reach it, and extraction to run before authentication or on a public route; the evidence establishes increased allocation and garbage-collection pressure but not reliable process termination. This issue is fixed in version 1.47.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
open-telemetry opentelemetry-go >= 1.0.0-RC1, < 1.47.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage >= 1.0.0-RC1, < 1.47.0 1.47.0 GHSA-rrfc-gjm9-cgrj
Go go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation >= 1.0.0-RC1, < 1.47.0 1.47.0 GHSA-rrfc-gjm9-cgrj

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