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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-118264 EUVD-2026-112396GHSA-cxf3-9h37-7rr8GO-2026-6839

Echo: Rejected WebSocket upgrades can bypass Echo route-level access controls

Published Oct 28, 2026 · Updated Oct 30, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Echo is a Go web framework. From 4.0.0 until 4.16.1 and 5.4.1, Echo's Proxy middleware selects a raw tunnel from a client WebSocket upgrade request before verifying that the configured upstream accepted the upgrade. If the upstream rejects the upgrade with an ordinary keep-alive response, later HTTP requests on the connection are sent directly to that upstream without passing through Echo's router or route-specific middleware. This can bypass authentication or authorization enforced only by Echo routes, but requires an accessible proxy route, a cooperating rejected-upgrade response, and a target without independent upstream authorization. This issue is fixed in 4.16.1 and 5.4.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
labstack echo >= 4.0.0, < 4.16.1, >= 5.0.0, < 5.4.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 golang-github-labstack-echo No fix yet —
Debian 13 golang-github-labstack-echo No fix yet —
Debian 12 golang-github-labstack-echo No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 golang-github-labstack-echo No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS golang-github-labstack-echo No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS golang-github-labstack-echo No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS golang-github-labstack-echo +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS golang-github-labstack-echo.v2 +1 No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling temporal-ui-server 2.57.0-r1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/labstack/echo/v4 >= 4.0.0, < 4.16.1 4.16.1 GHSA-cxf3-9h37-7rr8
Go github.com/labstack/echo/v5 >= 5.0.0, < 5.4.1 5.4.1 GHSA-cxf3-9h37-7rr8

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