CVE-2026-8788: Rrwo Net::statsd::lite

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Net::Statsd::Lite versions through 0.10.0 for Perl allowed metric injections. The values from the set_add method were not checked for newlines, colons or pipes. Metrics generated from untrusted sources could inject additional statsd metrics. Note that version 0.9.0 fixed a similar issue CVE-2026-46719 for metric names.

Affected products

• Rrwo Net::statsd::lite: up to and including 0.10.0

Published 2026-05-18. Last modified 2026-06-19.