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ubuntu-cve-2026-63379

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2026-08-20 18:16

Modified

2026-09-02 16:20

Summary

Details

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.

Severity

6.3 (Medium)


                    
                      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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-63379	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63379	REPORT

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CVE-2026-63379 (GCVE-0-2026-63379)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-20 17:55 – Updated: 2026-08-25 15:14

Title

Libevent: HTTP Header smuggling

Summary

Severity

6.3 (Medium)


                        
                          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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-25 15:14 UTC

CWE

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

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/security/adv…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/87e8e…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/b8470…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/tag…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/tag…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
libevent	libevent	Affected: < 2.1.13 Affected: >= 2.2.0-alpha, < 2.2.2-alpha

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Nomenclature

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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