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io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api 1.49.01.62.0 age adoption passing confidence
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OpenTelemetry Java SDK has Unbounded Memory Allocation in W3C Baggage Propagation

CVE-2026-45292 / GHSA-rcgg-9c38-7xpx

More information

Details

Overview

A vulnerability affects the baggage propagation implementation in
opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-extension-trace-propagators. Parsing oversized baggage
causes unbounded memory allocation and CPU consumption. Because baggage is automatically
re-injected into every outgoing request, the effect can fan out to downstream services that
never received the original malicious request.

Technical Details
  • W3CBaggagePropagator did not enforce any limit on the total size or entry count of the
    baggage header. The parser iterated character-by-character through the entire value
    regardless of length.
  • JaegerPropagator and OtTracePropagator had the same gap in their respective baggage
    extraction paths.
  • The W3C Baggage specification recommends a maximum of 8,192 bytes and 180 entries; none of
    these limits were enforced.
Impact

The practical availability impact for most deployments is limited. Every major Java HTTP server
enforces its own header size limit (Tomcat, Jetty, Netty, Vert.x, and gRPC-Java all default to
8 KiB), constraining what an external attacker can deliver before the application is reached.
The risk is higher when transport-layer limits are absent — e.g., a compromised internal service
communicating over a non-HTTP or custom transport.

Remediation

Update to version 1.62.0 or later (#​8380).
The fix enforces limits consistent with the W3C Baggage specification at the propagator level:

  • Maximum total baggage size: 8,192 bytes across all baggage header values
  • Maximum number of entries: 64

Headers that would exceed either limit are dropped at the point the limit is reached;
already-extracted valid entries are retained.

Workarounds

Ensure HTTP header size limits are configured at the server or gateway level. Most Java HTTP
servers enforce an 8 KiB header limit by default, which mitigates external attack vectors
independently of this fix.

References

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 5.3 / 10 (Medium)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).


OpenTelemetry Java SDK has Unbounded Memory Allocation in W3C Baggage Propagation

CVE-2026-45292 / GHSA-rcgg-9c38-7xpx

More information

Details

Overview

A vulnerability affects the baggage propagation implementation in
opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-extension-trace-propagators. Parsing oversized baggage
causes unbounded memory allocation and CPU consumption. Because baggage is automatically
re-injected into every outgoing request, the effect can fan out to downstream services that
never received the original malicious request.

Technical Details
  • W3CBaggagePropagator did not enforce any limit on the total size or entry count of the
    baggage header. The parser iterated character-by-character through the entire value
    regardless of length.
  • JaegerPropagator and OtTracePropagator had the same gap in their respective baggage
    extraction paths.
  • The W3C Baggage specification recommends a maximum of 8,192 bytes and 180 entries; none of
    these limits were enforced.
Impact

The practical availability impact for most deployments is limited. Every major Java HTTP server
enforces its own header size limit (Tomcat, Jetty, Netty, Vert.x, and gRPC-Java all default to
8 KiB), constraining what an external attacker can deliver before the application is reached.
The risk is higher when transport-layer limits are absent — e.g., a compromised internal service
communicating over a non-HTTP or custom transport.

Remediation

Update to version 1.62.0 or later (#​8380).
The fix enforces limits consistent with the W3C Baggage specification at the propagator level:

  • Maximum total baggage size: 8,192 bytes across all baggage header values
  • Maximum number of entries: 64

Headers that would exceed either limit are dropped at the point the limit is reached;
already-extracted valid entries are retained.

Workarounds

Ensure HTTP header size limits are configured at the server or gateway level. Most Java HTTP
servers enforce an 8 KiB header limit by default, which mitigates external attack vectors
independently of this fix.

References

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 5.3 / 10 (Medium)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

This data is provided by OSV and the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).


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