CVE-2026-54788

dd-trace-rs provides Datadog application performance monitoring for Rust. From 0.1.0 until 0.3.3, datadog-opentelemetry/src/propagation/tracecontext.rs parses the W3C tracestate header and collects every semicolon-separated key and value pair in the Datadog dd=... vendor entry into a HashMap without enforcing a pair count or entry size limit. Because tracecontext extraction is enabled by default, a remote unauthenticated attacker can send an arbitrarily large dd=... entry and force excessive CPU and memory consumption for each request, causing denial of service in an instrumented network service. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.3.

  • Published Aug 28, 2026
  • CVSS 7.5 high
  • 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)
  • A fix is available

Affected software

CVE-2026-54788 at the National Vulnerability Database