Coturn: MOBILITY-TICKET session-resume authorization bypass allows cross-user TURN allocation takeover
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · Low
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-639.
Summary
Coturn is a free open source implementation of TURN and STUN Server. Prior to 4.15.0, a server using --mobility authenticates a resumed REFRESH request with the resuming user's credentials but does not verify that identity against the original allocation owner, allowing an authenticated attacker who obtains a victim MOBILITY-TICKET to receive and inject relayed traffic and consume the victim's quota. In the handle_turn_refresh resume branch, the victim allocation (orig_ss) is located solely by the attacker-controlled mobile id, and credentials are only adopted (via copy_auth_parameters) when the resuming session is unauthenticated. Because the attacker's session already has hmackey_set set to 1 from its own prior authentication (which is never reset for long-term-credential sessions), the credential copy is skipped and check_stun_auth validates the REFRESH against the attacker's own identity rather than the allocation owner's. This issue is fixed in version 4.15.0.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA coturn (coturn) Fixed in 4.15.0
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-65981
References
More coturn vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-32037 Coturn: Stack buffer overflow in decode_oauth_token_gcm() CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-44985 Coturn: Pre-authentication heap memory disclosure in ACME redirect (`try_acme_redirect`) CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
- TI-2026-29348 Coturn: Misaligned Memory Access in coturn STUN Attribute Parser (Remote DoS on ARM64) CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-22006 Coturn: IPv4-mapped IPv6 (::ffff:0:0/96) bypasses denied-peer-ip ACL CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2026-38529 Coturn: SQL Injection in HTTPS Admin Panel Delete Operations CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2026-38531 Coturn: IPv4-mapped 127.0.0.1 bypasses default loopback peer protection CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4
Sources
- CVE-2026-65981 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-65981 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- CVE-2026-65981 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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