CVE-2026-116588: Datadog dd-trace-py: ReDOS in URL query string obfuscation

Published Oct 26, 2026
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Updated

Datadog dd-trace-py is the Datadog Python APM client. From 1.5.0 until 3.19.9 and 4.15.6, the default query-string obfuscation regular expression can exhibit excessive backtracking while synchronously processing attacker-controlled URL query strings for HTTP span metadata. A remote attacker can cause prolonged CPU consumption, request latency, and service unavailability in affected HTTP tracing integrations that include query strings in URL span tags. The vulnerable processing is enabled by default for those integrations. This issue is fixed in versions 3.19.9 and 4.15.6.

Affected Software

1 affected component
pypi/ddtrace>=1.5.0<3.19.9, >=4.0.0<4.15.6

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Datadog dd-trace-py to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 3.19.9
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade Datadog dd-trace-py to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.15.6

Event History

Oct 26, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·09:22 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·09:22 PM
DescriptionWeakness

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