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.
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-mh2q-q3fh-2475 OpenTelemetry-Go: multi-value `baggage` header extraction causes excessive allocations (remote dos amplification)
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Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title OpenTelemetry-Go multi-value `baggage` header extraction causes excessive allocations (remote dos amplification)
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-07T20:29:13.933Z

Reserved: 2026-03-04T14:44:00.713Z

Link: CVE-2026-29181

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-07T21:17:16.003

Modified: 2026-04-07T21:17:16.003

Link: CVE-2026-29181

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