REDHAT-BUG-2520660: High severity libevent libevent vulnerability

Published Aug 20, 2026
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Updated

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.

Affected Software

1 affected component
libevent libevent<2.1.13, <2.2.2-alpha

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade libevent to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.1.13
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade libevent to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.2.2-alpha

Event History

Aug 20, 2026
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·06:05 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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