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Fluent Bit is licensed under Apache 2.0, by submitting this pull request I understand that this code will be released under the terms of that license.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Prometheus output now sanitizes invalid metric and label names, helping ensure emitted data is valid and label values remain safely escaped.
    • Improved handling of malformed or incomplete Prometheus, StatsD, MessagePack, and OpenTelemetry data, including clearer rejection of inconsistent histogram and summary samples.
    • Exponential histogram merges now reject oversized bucket ranges without partially changing existing data.
    • Improved histogram and summary handling when copying or decoding metrics, and corrected CloudWatch histogram minimum and maximum values.
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    • Updated the cmetrics patch version.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Silva <eduardo@calyptia.com>
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@edsiper edsiper added this to the Fluent Bit v5.1.3 milestone Sep 25, 2026
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This pull request updates cmetrics decoding, histogram aggregation, and metric encoding. It adds validation for MessagePack and OpenTelemetry layouts, adjusts Prometheus and StatsD parsing, sanitizes Prometheus output names, and updates build metadata and tests.

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cmetrics behavior and support

Layer / File(s) Summary
MessagePack payload decoding
lib/cmetrics/include/cmetrics/cmt_decode_msgpack.h, lib/cmetrics/include/cmetrics/cmt_variant_utils.h, lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_msgpack.c, lib/cmetrics/tests/msgpack_security.c
MessagePack decoding validates metric types and required histogram or summary sections. Variant string and binary decoders verify payload reads before allocation. Tests cover malformed metadata, missing or mismatched sections, repeated samples, and bucketless histograms.
Histogram aggregation and CloudWatch EMF
lib/cmetrics/include/cmetrics/cmt_exp_histogram.h, lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_cat.c, lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_encode_cloudwatch_emf.c, lib/cmetrics/tests/exp_histogram.c, lib/cmetrics/tests/histogram.c
Histogram concatenation rejects missing layouts and stages exponential-histogram merges within the configured bucket-span limit. CloudWatch EMF encoding scans counters to determine Min and Max. Tests cover oversized merges and large histogram encoding.
Prometheus and remote-write decoding
lib/cmetrics/include/cmetrics/cmt_decode_prometheus.h, lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_prometheus.c, lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_prometheus.l, lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_prometheus.y, lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_prometheus_remote_write.c, lib/cmetrics/tests/prometheus_parser.c, lib/cmetrics/tests/decoding.c
Prometheus decoding tracks histogram and summary sample state, checks sample layouts, and handles repeated labels. Lexer and parser changes handle unmatched input, repeated HELP declarations, and metric type changes. Remote-write histogram metadata with plain samples now selects gauge decoding. Regression tests cover these paths.
StatsD decoding
lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_statsd.c, lib/cmetrics/tests/decoding.c
StatsD decoding skips malformed tags and lines, updates repeated tag values, and adjusts error-path cleanup. Tests cover tag counts, repeated keys, and malformed lines.
OpenTelemetry histogram and summary layouts
lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c, lib/cmetrics/tests/opentelemetry.c
OpenTelemetry decoding rejects histogram points with differing bound counts and summary points with differing quantile counts. Sample storage uses the established metric layout. Tests exercise matching and mismatched layouts.
Prometheus name sanitization
lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_encode_prometheus.c, lib/cmetrics/tests/encoding.c
Prometheus encoding sanitizes metric names and label keys in banners and samples. A regression test checks the output for invalid name characters.
Build metadata and scripts
lib/cmetrics/CMakeLists.txt, lib/cmetrics/.github/workflows/build.yaml, lib/cmetrics/scripts/agent-build.sh, lib/cmetrics/scripts/agent-test.sh, lib/cmetrics/scripts/agent-verify.sh
The patch version increases to 4, the CentOS 7 workflow updates two Docker actions, and repository-root lookups set CDPATH to an empty value.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~55 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4e139

Distinct metrics can become indistinguishable in Prometheus output, and some OpenTelemetry histograms or summaries can be reported with incorrect layouts or counts. Resolve these data-accuracy issues before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4e139

Metric-name sanitization can make distinct input metrics appear identical in Prometheus output. The affected output is shared across metric types, while the consequences depend on how deployments accept metrics and consume the exposition.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Distinct metric names or label keys can normalize to the same Prometheus identity. Where a caller accepts attacker-influenced names, this can produce duplicate or misleading exposition rather than preserving the distinct stored identities; the external consumer outcome is unverified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A name collision can affect the Prometheus exposition of any metric family using this encoder. The independently attackable scope depends on which producers permit untrusted names and which exported contexts they share; cross-tenant or service-wide exposure is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — If an input producer permits a name such as a-b alongside a_b, both are retained as distinct raw names but can be emitted as a_b. That introduces an output-identity collision; whether it causes scrape rejection or metric misattribution depends on an unverified consumer.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Metric constructors check required arguments, but the traced map creation path copies label keys without checking whether distinct keys will have distinct serialized names. Raw metric identity is therefore not an output-collision control.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Staging improves failure containment for merges into an existing metric, but callers must not treat a failed concatenation as proof that an entire destination context is unchanged. The pre-merge entry-creation behavior is not established as introduced by this PR.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define the exported-name uniqueness policy at the producer or serialization boundary, and reject or explicitly disambiguate metric and label identities that collide after sanitization.
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In `@lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c`:
- Line 1045: Update the histogram layout validation at
lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c:1045 to compare each data point’s
explicit boundary values with the established histogram layout, not just the
number of boundaries. Also update the summary layout validation at
lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c:890 to compare each quantile with
the established summary layout, not just the quantile count.
- Line 1100: In the histogram decoding path, validate `histogram->buckets`
before allocating `sample->hist_buckets`: when bounds are present, require one
bucket count per bound plus the `+Inf` bucket, and reject points with missing
bucket counts. Update the corresponding test to expect rejection for bounded
histograms without bucket counts.

In `@lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_encode_prometheus.c`:
- Around line 123-129: Update metric_name_cat and the encoding path that uses it
to detect when distinct metric names or label keys sanitize to the same output
name; reject the collision or use a collision-safe mapping before writing
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return CMT_DECODE_OPENTELEMETRY_ALLOCATION_ERROR;
}
}
else if (data_point->n_explicit_bounds != histogram->buckets->count) {

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate layout values as well as layout lengths. Equal-length points can use different boundaries or quantiles. Both checks accept those points, but sample values are encoded using the first point’s metric-level layout. OTLP places each layout on its data point. (opentelemetry.io)

  • lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c#L1045-L1045: compare every explicit boundary with the established histogram layout.
  • lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c#L890-L890: compare every quantile with the established summary layout.
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  • lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c#L1045-L1045 (this comment)
  • lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c#L890-L890
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In `@lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c` at line 1045, Update the
histogram layout validation at lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c:1045
to compare each data point’s explicit boundary values with the established
histogram layout, not just the number of boundaries. Also update the summary
layout validation at lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c:890 to compare
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* buckets->count + 1 entries even when the data point carries
* fewer bucket counts
*/
sample->hist_buckets = calloc(histogram->buckets->count + 1,

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject bounded histograms with missing bucket counts.

When a point has 64 bounds, no bucket counts, and count == 7, this allocation supplies 65 zero buckets. The decoder accepts the point and the encoder reports buckets totaling zero alongside a count of seven. Require one bucket count per bound plus the +Inf bucket when bounds are present. The new success case in lib/cmetrics/tests/opentelemetry.c Lines 2752–2756 should expect rejection instead. The OTLP schema requires zero bounds when bucket counts are absent. (github.com)

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In `@lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c` at line 1100, In the histogram
decoding path, validate `histogram->buckets` before allocating
`sample->hist_buckets`: when bounds are present, require one bucket count per
bound plus the `+Inf` bucket, and reject points with missing bucket counts.
Update the corresponding test to expect rejection for bounded histograms without
bucket counts.

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Comment on lines +123 to +129
if (!((c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') || (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') ||
(c >= '0' && c <= '9') || c == '_' ||
(c == ':' && !is_label))) {
c = '_';
}

cfl_sds_cat_safe(buf, &c, 1);

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve distinct names when sanitizing Prometheus output.

metric_name_cat maps both cpu.total and cpu_total to cpu_total. If both metrics are present, the encoded output gives distinct metrics the same series name. The same collision can give two label keys in one sample the same output name, such as a.b and a_b. Reject collisions or use a collision-safe name mapping before writing the output. Prometheus identifies a series by its metric name and labels. (next.prometheus.io)

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metric_name_cat and the encoding path that uses it to detect when distinct
metric names or label keys sanitize to the same output name; reject the
collision or use a collision-safe mapping before writing output, preserving
distinct series and label names.

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Closing in favor of #12470

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