Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-11362 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-11362 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-11362?
- Informational severity, published 5 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- DataDog (Perl) DogStatsd through 0.07.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-11362?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-11362 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-11362?
- Check whether you run Datadog DogStatsd (Perl). Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The DataDog::DogStatsd Perl library fails to properly sanitize input in the format_event method, which is utilized by the event method. Specifically, the library does not validate the content of tags, allowing them to contain commas, newlines, pipes, and colons. These characters can be used to inject additional tags or entirely new metrics into the DogStatsd stream. A failed attempt at mitigation exists in the code (s/|//g), but it is ineffective because the pipe character is not escaped, causing it to be treated as a regex metacharacter rather than a literal character to be removed. This is classified as a CRLF and control sequence injection vulnerability (CWE-93, CWE-150).
Affected products
- DataDog (Perl) DogStatsd through 0.07
Timeline
- 2026-06-05: disclosed
- 2026-06-05: advisory