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[GHSA] GHSA-42cj-99w8-cp2p (medium) — OpenTelemetry-Go: Unsynchronized baggage map can panic under concurrent access

highgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-08-20

GHSA-42cj-99w8-cp2p Severity: medium CVE: CVE-2026-45404

OpenTelemetry-Go: Unsynchronized baggage map can panic under concurrent access

### Summary

`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/bridge/opentracing` introduced an unsynchronized `extraBaggageItems` map on `bridgeSpan`. One goroutine can write this map through `Span.SetBaggageItem` while another goroutine reads and iterates it during correlation bagga

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Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-42cj-99w8-cp2p