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CVE-2026-63385

CVE-2026-63385 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.2 CRITICAL

Reported by GitHub_M · Published August 20, 2026

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0
9.2
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
libeventlibevent>= 2.2.0-alpha, < 2.2.2-alpha, < 2.1.13
libeventlibevent>= 2.2.0-alpha, < 2.2.2-alpha, < 2.1.13, >= 2.2.0-alpha, < 2.2.2-alpha

Timeline

  • Aug 20, 2026 CVE Published
  • Aug 22, 2026 Coalition ESS Score
  • Aug 24, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Aug 26, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Aug 30, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Sep 3, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Sep 3, 2026 Security Advisory
  • Sep 6, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Sep 9, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Sep 9, 2026 CVE Updated
  • Sep 12, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Sep 16, 2026 EPSS Score
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