CVE-2026-50638

critical · 9.1

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.

9.1

CVSS

0.3%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

28th

EPSS percentile

2026-06-10

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CWE-93CWE-150

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
pevans	metrics::any::adapter::dogstatsd	< 0.04

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References

https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/Metrics-Any-Adapter-Statsd-0.04/changes
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-50637
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-50639
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9270

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-50638