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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-118266 EUVD-2026-112403GHSA-r7w9-592q-9vg4GO-2026-6877

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

Published Oct 28, 2026 · Updated Nov 3, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
labstack echo < 4.16.0, >= 5.0.0, < 5.4.0 —

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 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/labstack/echo/v4 < 4.16.0 4.16.0 GHSA-r7w9-592q-9vg4
Go github.com/labstack/echo/v5 >= 5.0.0, < 5.4.0 5.4.0 GHSA-r7w9-592q-9vg4

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