CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-63385
9.2 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-08-20
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 9.2 CRITICAL — 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Weaknesses
- CWE-444
Description
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.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests weakness
References
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/758be0c0f69c1934ef9a84ab39e9f9e5fde2e6d0 github.com
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/9170dd35e64714613e8d13b290587cfc28e258e2 github.com
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/tag/release-2.1.13-stable github.com
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/tag/release-2.2.2-alpha github.com
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/security/advisories/GHSA-jcwh-pvf2-73p2 github.com