CVE-2026-29181 (GCVE-0-2026-29181)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-07 20:29 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:07
VLAI
Title
OpenTelemetry-Go multi-value `baggage` header extraction causes excessive allocations (remote dos amplification)
Summary
OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. From 1.36.0 to 1.40.0, multi-value baggage: header extraction parses each header field-value independently and aggregates members across values. This allows an attacker to amplify cpu and allocations by sending many baggage: header lines, even when each individual value is within the 8192-byte per-value parse limit. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.41.0.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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