{"id":"CVE-2026-79658","aliases":["EUVD-2026-65456","GHSA-j8jc-x8v7-x64g"],"status":"published","title":"Ech0 before 5.0.1 Denial of Service via Accept-Language","description":"Ech0 before 5.0.1 does not impose any size or shape limit on the Accept-Language header processed by its i18n middleware, which runs on every HTTP request. The header is passed unfiltered to go-i18n's NewLocalizer, which internally calls golang.org/x/text/language.ParseAcceptLanguage. The CVE-2022-32149 mitigation in x/text caps '-' characters but not '_' characters, which the parser aliases to '-', allowing quadratic-time parsing to be triggered with a large header (up to Go's default 1 MiB) built from underscore separators. An unauthenticated attacker can send such requests to consume roughly 1.5 seconds of CPU each, and concurrent requests can saturate a multi-core server (denial of service).","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00509,"percentile":0.43763,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-400"],"published":"2026-08-25T11:33:23Z","modified":"2026-10-08T15:25:11Z","products":[{"vendor":"lin-snow","product":"ech0"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/lin-snow/Ech0/security/advisories/GHSA-mqxv-9rm6-w8qc","tags":["vendor-advisory"]},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ech0-before-denial-of-service-via-accept-language","tags":["third-party-advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79658"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j8jc-x8v7-x64g"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-79658","title":"Ech0 before 5.0.1 Denial of Service via Accept-Language","description":"Ech0 before 5.0.1 does not impose any size or shape limit on the Accept-Language header processed by its i18n middleware, which runs on every HTTP request. 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The CVE-2022-32149 mitigation in x/text caps '-' characters but not '_' characters, which the parser aliases to '-', allowing quadratic-time parsing to be triggered with a large header (up to Go's default 1 MiB) built from underscore separators. An unauthenticated attacker can send such requests to consume roughly 1.5 seconds of CPU each, and concurrent requests can saturate a multi-core server (denial of service).","status":"published","published":"2026-08-25T11:33:23Z","modified":"2026-10-08T15:25:11Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T17:27:31.218078Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-j8jc-x8v7-x64g","title":"Ech0 before 5.0.1 does not impose any size or shape limit on the Accept-Language header processed...","description":"Ech0 before 5.0.1 does not impose any size or shape limit on the Accept-Language header processed by its i18n middleware, which runs on every HTTP request. The header is passed unfiltered to go-i18n's NewLocalizer, which internally calls golang.org/x/text/language.ParseAcceptLanguage. The CVE-2022-32149 mitigation in x/text caps '-' characters but not '_' characters, which the parser aliases to '-', allowing quadratic-time parsing to be triggered with a large header (up to Go's default 1 MiB) built from underscore separators. An unauthenticated attacker can send such requests to consume roughly 1.5 seconds of CPU each, and concurrent requests can saturate a multi-core server (denial of service).","status":"published","published":"2026-08-25T12:31:26Z","modified":"2026-08-25T12:31:26Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"},{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-400"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:10:56.831918Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-79658","description":"Ech0 before 5.0.1 does not impose any size or shape limit on the Accept-Language header processed by its i18n middleware, which runs on every HTTP request. The header is passed unfiltered to go-i18n's NewLocalizer, which internally calls golang.org/x/text/language.ParseAcceptLanguage. 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