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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-50271 EUVD-2026-45329GHSA-mw54-j2v2-42hrPYSEC-2026-3461

dd-trace-py: Improper parsing of W3C baggage headers may lead to DoS

Published Jul 17, 2026 · Updated Jul 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Datadog dd-trace-py is the Datadog Python APM client. Prior to 4.8.2, 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 limits on the extract path. 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 HTTP services with baggage propagation enabled. This issue is fixed in version 4.8.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
DataDog dd-trace-py < 4.8.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling datadog-agent-7.72-core-integrations No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling datadog-agent-7.73-core-integrations 7.73.3-r23 —
Wolfi rolling datadog-agent-7.77-core-integrations 7.77.3-r23 —
Wolfi rolling datadog-agent-7.78-core-integrations 7.78.4-r16 —
Wolfi rolling datadog-agent-7.79-core-integrations 7.79.2-r16 —
Wolfi rolling datadog-agent-7.80-core-integrations 7.80.4-r10 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI ddtrace < 4.8.2 4.8.2 GHSA-mw54-j2v2-42hr

References