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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2026-23886 json

Swift W3C TraceContext has malformed HTTP header that can cause a crash

published 2026-01-19 9 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-3282 , GHSA-mvpq-2v8x-ww6g

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Swift W3C TraceContext is a Swift implementation of the W3C Trace Context standard, and Swift OTel is an OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) backend for Swift Log, Swift Metrics, and Swift Distributed Tracing. Prior to Swift W3C TraceContext version 1.0.0-beta.5 and Swift OTel version 1.0.4, a denial-of-service vulnerability due to improper input validation allows a remote attacker to crash the service via a malformed HTTP header. This allows crashing the process with data coming from the network when used with, for example, an HTTP server. Most common way of using Swift W3C Trace Context is through Swift OTel. Version 1.0.0-beta.5 of Swift W3C TraceContext and version 1.0.4 of Swift OTel contain a patch for this issue. As a workaround, disable either Swift OTel or the code that extracts the trace information from an incoming header (such as a `TracingMiddleware`).

Patch / fix

  • swift github.com/swift-otel/swift-w3c-trace-context 1.0.0-beta.5
  • swift github.com/swift-otel/swift-otel 1.0.4

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
9 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
swift github.com/swift-otel/swift-w3c-trace-context
<1.0.0-beta.5
1.0.0-beta.5
swift github.com/swift-otel/swift-otel
<1.0.4
1.0.4

Affected products

  • swift-otel swift-w3c-trace-context

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.