CVE-2026-63495
HIGH
7,5
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: high
Description
AI Translation Available
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 unauthenticated remote client can repeatedly send fragmented WebSocket frames below WS_MAX_RECV_FRAME_SZ with FIN=0, causing the evbuffer to grow without bound until the process or host exhausts memory. This issue is fixed in version 2.2.2-alpha.
400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
DraftCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability
Access Control
Other
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Crash, Exit, Or Restart
Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu)
Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Dos: Resource Consumption (Other)
Bypass Protection Mechanism
Other
Applicable Platforms
Technologies:
Not Technology-Specific, AI/ML
770
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
IncompleteCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu)
Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Dos: Resource Consumption (Other)
Applicable Platforms
All platforms may be affected
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/security/advisories/GHSA-qx89-wf2v-vgmx
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/291c4d1cd75695e898030ebd5c4ddf26c09…
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/tag/release-2.2.2-alpha
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/security/advisories/GHSA-qx89-wf2v-vgmx