Net::Statsd versions before 0.13 for Perl allow metric injections. The metric names are not checked for newlines, colons or pipes. Metrics generated from untrusted sources could inject additional statsd metrics. The update_stats (used for updating counters) and gauge methods do not check that values are numeric (which would block metric injection).

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-9c71664439 advisory.

    Metric names and values are now validated to ensure they do not contain characters below ASCII 32     (including newlines), colon (:) or pipe (|) characters that might allow metric injection. Offending     calls now croak.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-9a8f233b8f advisory.

    Metric names and values are now validated to ensure they do not contain characters below ASCII 32     (including newlines), colon (:) or pipe (|) characters that might allow metric injection. Offending     calls now croak.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Net::Statsd versions before 0.13 for Perl allow metric injections. The metric names are not checked for     newlines, colons or pipes. Metrics generated from untrusted sources could inject additional statsd     metrics. The update_stats (used for updating counters) and gauge methods do not check that values are     numeric (which would block metric injection). (CVE-2026-46739)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
321731	Fedora 44 : perl-Net-Statsd (2026-9c71664439)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
321719	Fedora 43 : perl-Net-Statsd (2026-9a8f233b8f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
318738	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-46739	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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CVE-2026-46739

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