lib: cmetrics: upgrade to v2.2.5

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of malformed or incomplete metric data across Prometheus, StatsD, MessagePack, and OpenTelemetry inputs.
  • Prometheus output now sanitizes invalid metric and label names.
  • Improved histogram and summary compatibility checks, and made histogram merging safer when bucket layouts are missing or exceed supported limits.
  • Corrected handling of histogram metadata paired with plain samples and improved CloudWatch histogram range reporting.
  • Fixed handling of repeated labels and metric metadata, and prevented malformed Prometheus input from terminating processing.
• Chores
  • Updated the Cmetrics package version.

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The changes update cmetrics decoding, histogram aggregation, and metric encoding. They add validation and regression coverage for several input formats, revise CloudWatch and Prometheus output handling, and update build metadata and scripts.

Changes

cmetrics behavior and maintenance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
MessagePack decoding and validation 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 checks metric types and required sample sections, releases replaced static storage, and validates variant payload reads. Tests cover malformed sections, truncated metadata, repeated samples, and bucketless histograms.
OpenTelemetry histogram and summary layouts lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c, lib/cmetrics/tests/opentelemetry.c	OpenTelemetry decoding requires data points to match established histogram bounds or summary quantiles. Tests cover matching layouts and mismatched or missing bucket and quantile data.
Prometheus text parsing 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/tests/prometheus_parser.c	Parsing tracks histogram and summary samples, validates quantile labels, handles shorter metric instances, and replaces repeated labels and HELP text. The lexer returns unmatched characters to the parser. Regression tests cover these cases.
StatsD and remote-write decoding lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_statsd.c, lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_prometheus_remote_write.c, lib/cmetrics/tests/decoding.c	StatsD decoding skips malformed tags and lines, replaces duplicate tag values, and changes metric-name cleanup. Remote-write decoding treats histogram metadata with plain samples as a gauge. Tests cover tag limits, repeated tags, malformed lines, and histogram metadata.
Histogram aggregation and CloudWatch encoding 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 bucket layouts and stages exponential-histogram merges within a bucket-range limit. CloudWatch EMF finds histogram extrema in one pass. Tests cover failed merges and large histograms.
Prometheus metric-name encoding lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_encode_prometheus.c, lib/cmetrics/tests/encoding.c	Prometheus encoding normalizes metric names and label keys in banners and sample output. It joins values for label keys that sanitize to the same name, and skips differently named metric maps that collide after sanitization. Tests cover invalid characters and collisions.
Build metadata and scripts lib/cmetrics/.github/workflows/build.yaml, lib/cmetrics/CMakeLists.txt, lib/cmetrics/scripts/agent-build.sh, lib/cmetrics/scripts/agent-test.sh, lib/cmetrics/scripts/agent-verify.sh	The configured patch version and pinned Docker actions change. Agent scripts clear CDPATH while resolving the repository root.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 6d32d

Prometheus output now sanitizes metric and label names. When distinct label keys sanitize to the same name, their values are merged under one key instead of producing duplicate labels on a sample. No outstanding merge-blocking issue remains.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6d32d

Sanitizing metric names prevents hostile characters from appearing directly in exported output, but it can also cause distinct metrics or labels to share an exported identity. The effect on downstream monitoring has not been established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Distinct source metric names can resolve to one exported name; traversal order determines which metric is emitted, and the later map is omitted. This can affect monitoring integrity if independently controlled names share a metric context.
• Low · security · inferred: Static and API-defined label keys that normalize to one key are emitted as one label with joined values, losing the distinction between their sources. Security impact depends on how consumers interpret that label.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated collision effects apply to metrics encoded from the same cmetrics context. Evidence does not establish which callers accept independently controlled metric names or how downstream consumers use the output.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If a less-trusted producer can add a colliding name to a shared metric context ahead of a monitored metric, the encoder can omit the later metric from Prometheus output. Attacker reachability and a security-sensitive downstream use are not verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Output-time normalization prevents hostile name characters in the tested input from appearing unchanged in Prometheus exposition. It does not preserve separate identities for names that normalize identically.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The temporary metric-name table is local to an encoding call and is freed after formatting; allocation and traversal failures destroy the output buffer.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Where metric or label identity matters to monitoring controls, make normalized-name collisions explicit rather than silently omitting a metric or combining label values; establish whether callers can mutate a context during the two encoding passes.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: upgrading the cmetrics library to v2.2.5.
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In `@lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_encode_prometheus.c`:
- Line 249: Update format_metric to detect when distinct label keys normalize to
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• lib/cmetrics/.github/workflows/build.yaml
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• lib/cmetrics/include/cmetrics/cmt_decode_msgpack.h
• lib/cmetrics/include/cmetrics/cmt_decode_prometheus.h
• lib/cmetrics/include/cmetrics/cmt_exp_histogram.h
• lib/cmetrics/include/cmetrics/cmt_variant_utils.h
• lib/cmetrics/scripts/agent-build.sh
• lib/cmetrics/scripts/agent-test.sh
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• lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_cat.c
• lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_msgpack.c
• lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_decode_opentelemetry.c
• 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/src/cmt_decode_statsd.c
• lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_encode_cloudwatch_emf.c
• lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_encode_prometheus.c
• lib/cmetrics/tests/decoding.c
• lib/cmetrics/tests/encoding.c
• lib/cmetrics/tests/exp_histogram.c
• lib/cmetrics/tests/histogram.c
• lib/cmetrics/tests/msgpack_security.c
• lib/cmetrics/tests/opentelemetry.c
• lib/cmetrics/tests/prometheus_parser.c

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

Reject label keys that collide after normalization.

If a metric has distinct label keys a.b and a-b, metric_name_cat emits a_b for both. format_metric then writes two a_b labels on one sample. Detect collisions after normalization, or assign unique output keys before writing the sample.

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In `@lib/cmetrics/src/cmt_encode_prometheus.c` at line 249, Update format_metric
to detect when distinct label keys normalize to the same output name via
metric_name_cat, and reject the collision before writing duplicate labels on a
sample.

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