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CVE-2026-50638

9.1 critical SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed

Metrics::Any::Adapter::DogStatsd versions before 0.04 for Perl does not protect against metric injections. The statsd protocol (and extensions such as dogstatsd) allow mutiple metrics, separated by newlines, to be sent per packet. Metrics::Any::Adapter::DogStatsd which extends Metrics::Any::Adapter::Statsd, which has a similar vulnerability. In addition, the _tags function does not check tags for newlines or statsd control characters. The tags can be used for metric injections.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 9.1 · pevansNVD modified 2026-10-26 11:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:pevans:metrics\:\:any\:\:adapter\:\:dogstatsd:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*

References 4