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CVE-2024-38525 (GCVE-0-2024-38525)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-28 21:10 – Updated: 2024-08-02 04:12
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Title
dd-trace-cpp malformed unicode header values may cause crash
Summary
dd-trace-cpp is the Datadog distributed tracing for C++. When the library fails to extract trace context due to malformed unicode, it logs the list of audited headers and their values using the `nlohmann` JSON library. However, due to the way the JSON library is invoked, it throws an uncaught exception, which results in a crash. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.2.2.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-02 15:43 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-248 - Uncaught Exception
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
DataDog dd-trace-cpp Affected: >= 0.1.12, < 0.2.2
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datadoghq dd-trace-cpp Affected: 0 , < 0.1.13 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 0.2.2 (custom)
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