REDHAT-BUG-2520666: 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, libevent has two HTTP parsing weaknesses in http.c. evhttpdecodeuriinternal 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. evhttpheaderisvalidvalue 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.

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·06:12 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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