CVE 5.3 MEDIUM

OpenTelemetry-Go’s baggage parsing no longer caps raw header length_CVE-2026-41178

5.3 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. Versions 1.41.0 and 1.43.0 removed raw-length rejection and it causes `Parse` to process arbitrarily large/invalid baggage headers and log errors, enabling DoS via oversized inputs. Versions 1.42.0 and 1.44.0 fix the issue.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-41178
Source GitHub_M
Published Jun 4, 2026 at 14:38
Modified Jun 4, 2026 at 15:46

Affected Product

Vendor open-telemetry
Product go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage
Version = 1.41.0
Affected Versions open-telemetry go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage = 1.41.0
open-telemetry go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage = 1.43.0
open-telemetry go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation = 1.41.0
open-telemetry go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation = 1.43.0

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