Bug 2520666 (CVE-2026-63385) - CVE-2026-63385 libevent: Libevent: HTTP header handling bugs create risk of access control bypass.
Summary: CVE-2026-63385 libevent: Libevent: HTTP header handling bugs create risk of a...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-63385
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2527791
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Reported: 2026-08-20 18:12 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-02 21:43 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-20 18:12:07 UTC
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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