CVE-2026-118653

medium

Description

Echo is a Go web framework. From 4.0.0 until 5.1.0, Context.RealIP falls back to client-supplied X-Forwarded-For or X-Real-IP values when Echo.IPExtractor is unset, and the default RateLimiter uses that result as its client identifier. A remote attacker can rotate arbitrary forwarded-address values to obtain new rate-limit buckets and bypass IP-based throttling used for controls such as brute-force or request-volume protection. This issue is fixed in Echo v5.1.0.

References

https://github.com/labstack/echo/security/advisories/GHSA-246p-cpwv-v3jq

https://github.com/labstack/echo/releases/tag/v5.1.0

https://github.com/labstack/echo/commit/22e4b71109ef072ef011a489066ec662ca9565b2

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-112409

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-28

Updated: 2026-10-28

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium