Datadog PHP Tracer: Improper parsing of W3C baggage headers may lead to DoS
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-770.
Summary
The Datadog PHP Tracer provides application performance monitoring and distributed tracing for PHP. Prior to 1.19.2, ddtrace_deserialize_baggage in ext/distributed_tracing_headers.c parses incoming W3C baggage HTTP headers without enforcing DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_ITEMS or DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_BYTES. A remote unauthenticated client can send an arbitrarily large number of comma-separated key-value pairs or a single oversized value, causing the tracer to allocate hash-map entries and consume unbounded CPU and memory on each request. Baggage extraction is enabled by default in most affected deployments unless baggage is removed from DD_TRACE_PROPAGATION_STYLE or DD_TRACE_PROPAGATION_STYLE_EXTRACT. This issue is fixed in version 1.19.2.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA dd-trace-php (DataDog) Fixed in 1.19.2
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-50275
- 2026-11-07 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-11-07 CVSS score added · Red Hat
References
Other 6
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-php/security/advisories/GHSA-phwx-ww2p-cv9v
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-php/pull/3854
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-php/commit/2f7987eb02e306bb62bce8ec4152dece68112f51
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-php/commit/43072ccafe55a5dbdfba75a42bf316b4150ae1e5
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-php/releases/tag/1.19.2
- https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-php/releases/tag/1.20.0
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Sources
- CVE-2026-50275 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-50275 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- CVE-2026-50275 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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