7.5

CVE-2026-54788: datadog dd-trace-rs

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighDeferred
AliasesGHSA-gpwf-4h98-v82q
Published 28-08-2026Last modified 31-08-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-54788 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in datadog dd-trace-rs. EPSS estimates a 0.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.79%
0%100%
Low · +0.23 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 28-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 31-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.79%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

56%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.23 pp

From 0.56% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.79%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Crates.Io1 product
  • datadog-opentelemetry≥ 0.1.0, < 0.3.3
Datadog1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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