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CVE-2026-63385

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

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
libevent / libeventaffected >= 2.2.0-alpha, < 2.2.2-alpha; affected < 2.1.13

CWE

CWE-444

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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