CVE-2026-118657: medium-severity vulnerability in labstack echo
Echo: HTTPS Redirect and HSTS Bypass via Unconditional Trust of Forwarded Scheme Headers
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 0.1%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Affected products
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References
https://github.com/labstack/echo/commit/b838391e2eade87ae7e5a09d7bb5087bec271ec1https://github.com/labstack/echo/commit/fc410094b2f3415cf2bf5204082137b205bfd5afhttps://github.com/labstack/echo/releases/tag/v4.16.0https://github.com/labstack/echo/releases/tag/v5.4.0https://github.com/labstack/echo/security/advisories/GHSA-2ffq-g2xg-c22p