CVE-2026-50274
Description
A flaw was found in Datadog dd-trace-go, a Go client library. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a request with a specially crafted baggage header containing an arbitrarily large number of key-value pairs or a very large single value. This can lead to unbounded CPU and memory consumption, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) against HTTP services that have baggage propagation enabled.
Statement
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform 4.21+ ship versions of the Datadog dd-trace-go v2 library prior to v2.8.1 that are vulnerable to this denial-of-service flaw in W3C baggage header parsing. OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 through 4.20 ships dd-trace-go v1, which does not implement W3C baggage propagation and is not affected.
Mitigation
If Datadog APM tracing with W3C baggage propagation is enabled, disable the baggage propagator by setting the DD_TRACE_PROPAGATION_STYLE environment variable to exclude 'baggage'.
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details
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The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 Score Breakdown
| Red Hat | NVD | cve.org | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 7.5 | N/A | 7.5 |
| Attack Vector | Network | N/A | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low | N/A | Low |
| Privileges Required | None | N/A | None |
| User Interaction | None | N/A | None |
| Scope | Unchanged | N/A | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None | N/A | None |
| Integrity Impact | None | N/A | None |
| Availability Impact | High | N/A | High |
Vector
Red Hat: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
cve.org: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU); DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory); DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)
When allocating resources without limits, an attacker could prevent other systems, applications, or processes from accessing the same type of resource. It can be easy for an attacker to consume many resources by rapidly making many requests or causing larger resources to be used than is needed.
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