Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-96941.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-96941
Upstream
Published
2026-08-20T18:16:35Z
Modified
2026-08-29T05:27:27Z
Summary
CVE-2026-63379 affecting package libevent 2.1.12-1
Details

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 evhttpreadtrailer and merges them into request headers. The fix introduces evhttpparseheadersimpl 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.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / libevent

Package

Name
libevent
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/libevent

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
2.1.12-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-96941.json"