CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-79668

MediumCVSS 5.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

17th percentile - higher than 17% of all known CVEs

Summary

Ech0 before 4.7.3 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the PUT /api/echo/like/:id endpoint that allows unauthenticated attackers to increment engagement metrics without identity verification or rate limiting. Attackers can send repeated requests to arbitrarily inflate the fav_count field for any known echo identifier, compromising the integrity of engagement metrics and social ranking systems.

Risk Assessment

Risk of engagement metric manipulation and user trust erosion, potentially leading to false rankings and platform credibility loss.

Recommendation

Update Ech0 to version 4.7.3 or later, which fixes this issue. Additionally, implement authentication and rate limiting for engagement endpoints.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Ech0 before 4.7.3 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the PUT /api/echo/like/:id endpoint that allows unauthenticated attackers to increment engagement metrics without identity verification or rate limiting. Attackers can send repeated requests to arbitrarily inflate the fav_count field for any known echo identifier, compromising the integrity of engagement metrics and social ranking systems.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS