Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-96944.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-96944
Upstream
Published
2026-08-20T18:16:35Z
Modified
2026-08-30T05:26:50Z
Summary
CVE-2026-63382 affecting package libevent 2.1.12-1
Details

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.

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-96944.json"