CVE-2026-63379 PUBLISHED

Libevent: HTTP Header smuggling

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 16.07.2026 Published: 20.08.2026 Updated: 20.08.2026

Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent processes chunked HTTP trailers in http.c through evhttp_read_trailer and merges them into request headers. The fix introduces evhttp_parse_headers_impl_ and a temporary trailer header list. An unauthenticated remote attacker can place security-sensitive fields in trailers so that an upstream proxy and the libevent application interpret different effective headers, enabling header smuggling, authorization bypass, proxy-header spoofing, or cache poisoning. The fix parses trailers into a temporary header list and discards them instead of merging them into req->input_headers. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.3

Product Status

Vendor libevent
Product libevent
Versions
  • Version < 2.1.13 is affected
  • Version >= 2.2.0-alpha, < 2.2.2-alpha is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling') CWE