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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | Libevent: HTTP header handling bugs create risk of access control bypass. | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-444 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-08-20T17:55:36.214Z
Reserved: 2026-07-16T17:39:30.171Z
Link: CVE-2026-63385
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-20T18:16:36.543
Modified: 2026-08-20T18:16:36.543
Link: CVE-2026-63385
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-21T13:01:01Z