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 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.

CVSS 3.1

7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 56% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-770

Published

2026-07-17

Modified

2026-10-24

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-25

Packages (OSV)

References

• https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/commit/a7d4c0da05f67cde05a99272b725a317c461d0e6
• https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/pull/8255
• https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/releases/tag/v5.100.0
• https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/security/advisories/GHSA-wxqq-gcq8-c443

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