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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-118657 EUVD-2026-112464GHSA-2ffq-g2xg-c22pGO-2026-6879

Echo: HTTPS Redirect and HSTS Bypass via Unconditional Trust of Forwarded Scheme Headers

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, Context.Scheme unconditionally trusts forwarded scheme headers from any client. A client that reaches Echo directly over plaintext HTTP can claim an HTTPS scheme and bypass HTTPSRedirect because the request is treated as already secure. Separately, behind a TLS-terminating proxy that passes an attacker-controlled header, a claimed HTTP scheme can suppress the Strict-Transport-Security header even though the browser receives the response over HTTPS. The practical risk is reduced when a trusted proxy overwrites the headers and direct backend access is prevented, but the framework previously had no trusted-source configuration for this decision. This issue is fixed in 4.16.0 and 5.4.0.

Affected products

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

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-2ffq-g2xg-c22p
Go github.com/labstack/echo/v5 < 5.4.0 5.4.0 GHSA-2ffq-g2xg-c22p

References