CVE-2026-63379

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.

CVSS 4.0

6.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS

0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-444

Published

2026-08-20

Modified

2026-10-26

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-26

References

• https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/87e8e44fa774e9677b089b1a5114ee68aefa1636
• https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/b847071141b3827900d536594ec9045eb0a4c485
• https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/tag/release-2.1.13-stable
• https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/tag/release-2.2.2-alpha
• https://github.com/libevent/libevent/security/advisories/GHSA-2gmv-p5m7-98p6

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