dd-trace-rs provides Datadog application performance monitoring for Rust. From 0.1.0 until 0.3.3, datadog-opentelemetry/src/propagation/tracecontext.rs parses the W3C tracestate header and collects every semicolon-separated key and value pair in the Datadog dd=... vendor entry into a HashMap without enforcing a pair count or entry size limit. Because tracecontext extraction is enabled by default, a remote unauthenticated attacker can send an arbitrarily large dd=... entry and force excessive CPU and memory consumption for each request, causing denial of service in an instrumented network service. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.3.
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-gpwf-4h98-v82q datadog-opentelemetry has unbounded W3C tracestate parsing that may lead to DoS
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Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:45:00 +0000

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Description dd-trace-rs provides Datadog application performance monitoring for Rust. From 0.1.0 until 0.3.3, datadog-opentelemetry/src/propagation/tracecontext.rs parses the W3C tracestate header and collects every semicolon-separated key and value pair in the Datadog dd=... vendor entry into a HashMap without enforcing a pair count or entry size limit. Because tracecontext extraction is enabled by default, a remote unauthenticated attacker can send an arbitrarily large dd=... entry and force excessive CPU and memory consumption for each request, causing denial of service in an instrumented network service. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.3.
Title dd-trace-rs: Unbounded W3C tracestate parsing may lead to DoS
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-28T16:33:49.032Z

Reserved: 2026-06-15T23:23:57.714Z

Link: CVE-2026-54788

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-28T20:18:17.950

Modified: 2026-08-28T20:18:17.950

Link: CVE-2026-54788

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Updated: 2026-08-28T21:00:04Z

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