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CVE-2026-118261: Echo: Decompress permits unbounded gzip expansion in v4

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-28 · updated 2026-10-29
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Echo is a Go web framework. From 4.0.0 until 4.16.1, Echo v4's opt-in Decompress middleware exposes a gzip-decoded request stream without limiting its expanded size. A small compressed request can expand into a very large body when a handler reads or binds it, consuming excessive memory or CPU and allowing repeated or concurrent requests to cause denial of service. The middleware is not enabled by default, and limiting only the compressed request size does not bound the decoded size. This issue is fixed in 4.16.1.

Affected products

• labstack echo: from 4.0.0, < 4.16.1

References

• https://github.com/labstack/echo/commit/3fb0ba7e17645bb65611e2a08875d0a2f65c421f
• https://github.com/labstack/echo/releases/tag/v4.16.1
• https://github.com/labstack/echo/security/advisories/GHSA-h7wr-284f-5qvc

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