CVE-2026-79668

MEDIUMPre-NVD 5.35.3
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-25. A secondary CVSS source baseline 5.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
5.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 5.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
5.3
EG Score
5.3MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
39
EG Risk 39/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity53% × 45%
The EG Score, 5.3 of 10.
Exploitation0.4% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
35th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 25, 2026

Last Modified

August 31, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 25, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github.
Web page

Ech0 before 4.7.3 Unauthenticated Like Endpoint Metric Inflation | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ech0-before-unauthenticated-like-endpoint-metric-inflation
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Unauthenticated Like Endpoint Enables Arbitrary Engagement Metric Inflation · Advisory · lin-snow/Ech0 · GitHub

https://github.com/lin-snow/Ech0/security/advisories/GHSA-rgj7-vg8v-j4wr

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-79668(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
github.com/lin-snow/ech0—
  • every version up to 1.4.8-0.20260503040728-a7e8b8e84bd1: fixed in 1.4.8-0.20260503040728-a7e8b8e84bd1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 17× in last 7d / 81× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 98 of 140 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 2 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 42 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
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  7. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  8. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  9. 2026-10-10 12:15 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-10 12:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  11. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  12. 2026-10-09 04:30 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-09 04:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  14. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  15. 2026-10-08 03:30 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-08 03:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  17. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  18. 2026-10-07 01:10 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-07 01:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  20. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  21. 2026-10-06 02:34 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-06 02:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  23. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  24. 2026-10-05 01:25 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-05 01:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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  1. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  2. 2026-10-04 02:14 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-04 02:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  4. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  5. 2026-10-03 01:42 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-03 01:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  7. 2026-10-02 17:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  8. 2026-10-02 03:40 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-02 03:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  10. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  11. 2026-10-01 05:36 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-01 05:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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  14. 2026-09-30 06:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  15. 2026-09-29 15:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
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  17. 2026-09-28 21:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  18. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
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  20. 2026-09-27 20:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  21. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  22. 2026-09-26 22:07 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-26 22:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  24. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
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  27. 2026-09-25 00:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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  30. 2026-09-24 00:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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  36. 2026-09-22 04:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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  39. 2026-09-21 06:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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  42. 2026-09-20 08:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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  47. 2026-09-18 11:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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  50. 2026-09-16 15:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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  54. 2026-09-15 17:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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  56. 2026-09-14 18:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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  65. 2026-09-11 00:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7v7f-8gw6-2q2x · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-79668?
CVE-2026-79668 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 25, 2026. 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…
When was CVE-2026-79668 made public?
CVE-2026-79668 was made public on May 3, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 25, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of August 31, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-79668 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-79668 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (35th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-79668?
CVE-2026-79668 has a CVSS base score of 5.3 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-79668?
A fix for CVE-2026-79668 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-79668 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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