CVE-2026-50276

high

Description

dd-trace-rb is Datadog's client library for Ruby. Prior to 2.32.0, W3C baggage extraction does not enforce DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_ITEMS, which defaults to 64, or DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_BYTES, which defaults to 8192, although those limits apply during baggage injection. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a baggage HTTP header containing many comma-separated key-value pairs or a single very large value. The extraction path allocates entries while parsing the attacker-controlled header on every request, causing unbounded CPU and memory consumption in an HTTP service where the baggage propagation style is enabled, which is the default for most affected tracers. This can cause denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 2.32.0.

References

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rb/security/advisories/GHSA-p5f6-rccc-jv98

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rb/releases/tag/v2.32.0

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rb/pull/5672

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rb/commit/361947090214488778ac4f144e219426ffcf92e6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00106