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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 17, 2026· Updated Jul 21, 2026

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

CVE-2026-50272

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.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
dd-tracenpm
< 5.100.05.100.0

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