{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ranges": [
        {
          "database_specific": {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "introduced": "2.2.0-alpha"
              },
              {
                "fixed": "2.2.2-alpha"
              },
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              },
              {
                "fixed": "2.1.13"
              }
            ],
            "source": [
              "AFFECTED_FIELD",
              "REFERENCES"
            ]
          },
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "df3ecad3a040fd6d4fad4287defe113395de6fd7"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "79ddfb460847999b807cba76d04e73891f29c6ee"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "91ed8745eebabdd27592a83d350338a8c4626321"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "e1f9e21887c6b104e206a718385ba3ffc75180cb"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/libevent/libevent",
          "type": "GIT"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "GHSA-fj29-64w6-73h6"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-125"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/63xxx/CVE-2026-63383.json"
  },
  "details": "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 using the full logical buffer length. A fragmented evbuffer containing a six-byte malformed tag can therefore advance past the pullup window and trigger an out-of-bounds read, which can crash a process that decodes attacker-controlled tagged RPC data. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha.",
  "id": "CVE-2026-63383",
  "modified": "2026-08-22T03:31:00.922473728Z",
  "published": "2026-08-20T17:48:24.568Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/tag/release-2.1.13-stable"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/tag/release-2.2.2-alpha"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/63xxx/CVE-2026-63383.json"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/libevent/libevent/security/advisories/GHSA-fj29-64w6-73h6"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63383"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/91ed8745eebabdd27592a83d350338a8c4626321"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/e1f9e21887c6b104e206a718385ba3ffc75180cb"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.9.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Libevent: decode_tag_internal() can lead to out-of-bounds read"
}