Resource exhaustion in Spring Micrometer Tracing

CVE-2026-59323

An application using Micrometer Tracing with W3C baggage propagation in the Brave bridge is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) due to unbounded object allocation when extracting incoming baggage headers. Micrometer Tracing 1.7.0 Micrometer Tracing 1.6.0 - 1.6.6 Micrometer Tracing 1.5.0 - 1.5.12 Micrometer Tracing 1.4.13 and earlier

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (32.1th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 32.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2026-59323: held from 0.004 to 0.004.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-59323?
CVE-2026-59323 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spring Micrometer Tracing, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-08-21.
How severe is CVE-2026-59323?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.