CVE-2026-29181

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
open-telemetryopentelemetry-go>= 1.36.0, < 1.41.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go: OpenTelemetry-Go: Denial of Service via crafted multi-value baggage headers

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