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CVE-2026-50272
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
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"product":"dd-trace-js","vendor":"DataDog","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"< 5.100.0"}]}
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Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":7.5,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
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CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-770","description":"CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
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Source references
4 source assertions{"name":"https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/commit/a7d4c0da05f67cde05a99272b725a317c461d0e6","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/commit/a7d4c0da05f67cde05a99272b725a317c461d0e6"}
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{"name":"https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/pull/8255","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/pull/8255"}
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{"name":"https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/releases/tag/v5.100.0","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/releases/tag/v5.100.0"}
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{"name":"https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/security/advisories/GHSA-wxqq-gcq8-c443","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"],"url":"https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/security/advisories/GHSA-wxqq-gcq8-c443"}
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Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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