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CVE-2026-9270: DataDog::DogStatsd versions through 0.07 for Perl allow metric injections

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-06-05 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-93

Description

DataDog::DogStatsd versions through 0.07 for Perl allow metric injections. DataDog::DogStatsd does not properly sanitise input, allowing metric injections of data from untrusted sources. The send_stats method does not remove newlines from metric names ($stat variable), allowing attackers to change the metric name prefix. The send_stats method does not validate the content of the value ($delta variable), allowing attackers to inject metrics, especially from methods that do not restrict the data type for the value, such as set, gauge, count and histogram. The send_stats method does not validate the content of the tags, which may contain newlines, pipes and colons that allow metric injections. Note that the SYNOPSIS shows an example of passing a website form "loginName" parameter as a tag, which is unsafe.

Affected products

• BINARY Datadog::Dogstatsd: through 0.07

References

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46719
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46720
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46741

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