Security Advisories (2)
CVE-2026-46719 (2026-05-16)

Net::Statsd::Lite versions before 0.9.0 for Perl allowed metric injections. The metric names were not checked for newlines, colons or pipes. Metrics generated from untrusted sources could inject additional statsd metrics.

CVE-2026-8788 (2026-05-18)

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.

Changes for version v0.5.0 - 2021-04-22 (TRIAL RELEASE)

  • Enhancements
    • All measurement methods take an optional `$opts` hashref that can be used to pass additiona information, such as tags.
    • Renamed internal `_record` method to `record_metric`.
  • Documentation
    • Documented `record_metric` method for subclassing.
    • Documented how to extend this to support tagging.
    • Updated copyright year.
    • Fixed typo for `meter` method name.
    • Fixed typos in Changes.
  • Tests
    • Add more author tests.

Documentation

Modules

A lightweight StatsD client that supports multimetric packets
A type library for Net::Statsd::Lite