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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2026-118266 json

Echo: CSRF Protection Bypass via MethodOverride Rewriting POST to Safe Method

published 2026-10-28 11 d ago modified 2026-11-05 3 d ago also GHSA-r7w9-592q-9vg4 , GO-2026-6877 , EUVD-2026-112403

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 5%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Echo is a Go web framework. Prior to 4.16.0 and 5.4.0, Echo's MethodOverride middleware accepts a safe HTTP method as the override target for a POST request. When MethodOverride is registered before CSRF in the post-routing middleware chain, route selection retains the original state-changing POST handler but the override changes the method before CSRF evaluates it, causing both token validation and Sec-Fetch-Site checks to be skipped. A cross-site exploit requires an authenticated victim and an override value that a browser-submitted request can control, such as the form getter used by the advisory reproducer; the default X-HTTP-Method-Override header getter is not settable by a cross-site form. This issue is fixed in 4.16.0 and 5.4.0.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/labstack/echo/v5 5.4.0
  • go github.com/labstack/echo/v4 4.16.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-118266 updated cvss 5.3

github.com/labstack/echo: Echo: CSRF protection bypass via MethodOverride safe method rewriting

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/labstack/echo/security/advisories/GHSA-r7w9-592q-9vg4 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/labstack/echo/v5
>=5.0.0, <5.4.0
5.4.0
go github.com/labstack/echo/v4
<4.16.0
4.16.0

Affected products

  • labstack echo

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

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