# CVE-2026-25766: Echo has a Windows path traversal via backslash in middleware.Static default filesystem

- Also known as: GHSA-PGVM-WXW2-HRV9, GO-2026-4502
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.0.3
- Published: 2026-02-19 · Updated: 2026-02-19

## Affected

- labstack echo: from 5.0.0, fixed in 5.0.3
- github.com/labstack/echo/v5 (Go): from 5.0.0, fixed in 5.0.3

## Description

Echo is a Go web framework. In versions 5.0.0 through 5.0.2 on Windows, Echo’s `middleware.Static` using the default filesystem allows path traversal via backslashes, enabling unauthenticated remote file read outside the static root. In `middleware/static.go`, the requested path is unescaped and normalized with `path.Clean` (URL semantics). `path.Clean` does not treat `\` as a path separator, so `..\` sequences remain in the cleaned path. The resulting path is then passed to `currentFS.Open(...)`. When the filesystem is left at the default (nil), Echo uses `defaultFS` which calls `os.Open` (`echo.go:792`). On Windows, `os.Open` treats `\` as a path separator and resolves `..\`, allowing traversal outside the static root. Version 5.0.3 fixes the issue.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/labstack/echo/security/advisories/GHSA-pgvm-wxw2-hrv9
- https://github.com/labstack/echo/pull/2891
- https://github.com/labstack/echo/commit/b1d443086ea27cf51345ec72a71e9b7e9d9ce5f1

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