CVE-2026-116693

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116693
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-116693.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-116693
Aliases
Downstream
CGA (19)
Published
2026-10-27T20:07:01Z
Modified
2026-10-28T10:45:42Z
Severity
  • 8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
dd-trace: ReDOS in URL query string obfuscation
Details

dd-trace is the Datadog APM client for Node.js. From 2.0.0 until 5.131.1 and 6.20.1, the default DD_TRACE_OBFUSCATION_QUERY_STRING_REGEXP can perform excessive backtracking on attacker-controlled URL query strings. The expression is applied synchronously while recording HTTP URL metadata, allowing a crafted request to consume excessive CPU, stall request processing, and make the instrumented application unavailable. This issue is fixed in versions 5.131.1 and 6.20.1.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/116xxx/CVE-2026-116693.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/datadog/dd-trace-js

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/datadog/dd-trace-js
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "2.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "5.131.1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StringRangeExpression"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "6.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "6.20.1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StringRangeExpression"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "5eeee790c93036a50549056fc890028cb4c86b1b"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "cf4e68a45fa1442c9850f2086c81901258e821b8"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "v5.131.1",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "2f04bd36d5bb876d8e7cf9c69ed4bd8f9e80b076"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "v6.20.1",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "f3517f33400a7e5cce8f1c691fd54355ed63c206"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v6.*
v6.0.0
v6.1.0
v6.10.0
v6.11.0
v6.12.0
v6.13.0
v6.14.0
v6.15.0
v6.16.0
v6.17.0
v6.18.0
v6.19.0
v6.2.0
v6.20.0
v6.3.0
v6.4.0
v6.5.0
v6.6.0
v6.7.0
v6.8.0
v6.9.0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-116693.json"