libevent has 6 CVEs on record. Disclosure cadence is accelerating: 6 in the last 90 days against 0 in the 90 before. The busiest recent month was August 2026 with 6. The median CVSS is 8.0 (high), with 1 rated critical. None have a confirmed exploitation report.
CVEs per month
Last 12 months, by publish date
- Exploited share
- 0% vs 1% corpus
- Median CVSS
- 8.0
- Publish → KEV
- —
- Last 90 days
- 6 prev 0
Worst active — by depth score
CVE-2026-63382Critical· 9.2Libevent is an event notification library63CVE-2026-63383High· 8.7Libevent is an event notification library60CVE-2026-63495High· 7.5Libevent is an event notification library53CVE-2026-63387High· 7.0Libevent is an event notification library51CVE-2026-63388High· 8.4Libevent is an event notification library46
libevent vulnerabilities
CVEs affecting libevent, newest first. Open any entry for full detail, references, and exploit status.
6 CVEsRSS
CVE-2026-63382Critical· 9.2PoCLibevent is an event notification library
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…
CVE-2026-63383High· 8.7PoCLibevent is an event notification library
Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent can read beyond a contiguous evbuffer region in event_tagging.c when decode_tag_internal requests at most five bytes from evbuffer_pullup but iterates u…
CVE-2026-63495High· 7.5PoCLibevent is an event notification library
Libevent is an event notification library. From 2.2.0-alpha-dev until 2.2.2-alpha, the libevent WebSocket server in ws.c accumulates fragmented frames in evws->incomplete_frames without enforcing a total message-size limit. An unauthenti…
CVE-2026-63388High· 8.4Libevent is an event notification library
Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent has a heap out-of-bounds write in bufferevent_sock.c when bufferevent_socket_set_conn_address_ copies a kernel-supplied AF_UNIX peer address into buffer…
CVE-2026-63387High· 7.0PoCLibevent is an event notification library
Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent has an off-by-one stack buffer overflow in evdns.c when dnsname_to_labels formats a name-bearing DNS record at the end of the 64 KB stack buffer allocat…
CVE-2026-63379Medium· 6.3Libevent is an event notification library
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…