Echo: CSRF Protection Bypass via MethodOverride Rewriting POST to Safe Method (labstack echo)

CVE-2026-118266
MEDIUM 5.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.16 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
labstack · echoaffected < 4.16.0 ; affected >= 5.0.0, < 5.4.0

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD