CVE-2026-63385 PUBLISHED

Libevent: HTTP header handling bugs create risk of access control bypass.

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 has two HTTP parsing weaknesses in http.c. evhttp_decode_uri_internal decodes percent-encoded %00 bytes into literal NUL characters, which can cause downstream C string operations to truncate a path and bypass validation performed on a different representation. evhttp_header_is_valid_value also accepts obsolete line folding in header values containing carriage return or line feed characters, allowing a proxy and libevent to interpret headers differently and enabling header injection or access control bypass. The CRLF header acceptance is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, but the reviewed patches do not clearly remediate the URI NUL-truncation condition.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.2

Product Status

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

References

Problem Types

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