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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Libevent: HTTP Header smuggling | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-444 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-08-20T17:55:00.789Z
Updated: 2026-08-25T15:14:26.228Z
Reserved: 2026-07-16T17:39:30.170Z
Link: CVE-2026-63379
Updated: 2026-08-25T15:14:22.389Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-20T18:16:35.200
Modified: 2026-08-25T16:17:04.467
Link: CVE-2026-63379