CVE-2026-63382
Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, the libevent evhttp parser in http.c inconsistently handles duplicate Transfer-Encoding headers, comma-separated Transfer-Encoding values, and bare line feeds in chunked framing. evhttpfindheader can select only the first header, evhttpchecktransferencoding was absent so the previous whole-string comparison fails to recognize valid lists ending in chunked, and evhttphandlechunkedread uses EVBUFFEREOLCRLF rather than EVBUFFEREOLCRLFSTRICT, accepting bare LF chunk terminators. When libevent is deployed behind a proxy that frames the same request differently, an unauthenticated remote attacker can desynchronize request boundaries and smuggle a second request, potentially bypassing access controls or poisoning caches. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha.
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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/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/63xxx/CVE-2026-63382.json, https://github.com/libevent/libevent/security/advisories/GHSA-q39v-w2g7-gr8j, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63382, https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/10abb34b8dc3e1184de315dd261ce4b77563cda6, https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/5119ceb00557bf007f9065709e852686f3c0bb6e, https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/83ba67373032334559b82409db035dd8c3cc1660, https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/ac38703b2d312200c4f967f02936af0118d384a0