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Coturn: Stack buffer overflow in decode_oauth_token_gcm()
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
N L N N U H H H 9.8 .0045 37.6 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
coturn < 4.10.0 – —
TIMELINE
May 4 Reserved by GitHub_M
Jun 18 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-43994 (coturn). Public exploit reference added.
Jun 18 Published (CNA: GitHub_M)
Description
Coturn is a free open source implementation of TURN and STUN Server. Versions prior to 4.10.0 contain a stack buffer overflow in decode_oauth_token_gcm(). A uint16_t nonce_len field read from an attacker-supplied OAuth access token (0-65535) is passed directly to memcpy() as the copy length into a 256-byte stack buffer (oauth_encrypted_block.nonce[256]) without bounds checking. The overflow occurs before AES-GCM authentication is verified, the attacker does not need to know the OAuth key or produce a valid AES-GCM token. Up to 735 bytes of attacker-controlled data are written past the buffer, may corrupt adjacent stack data, including control-flow data depending on compiler, ABI, and mitigations. Requires --oauth mode (non-default). This may provide a plausible RCE primitive depending on exploit mitigations; because coturn is widely deployed for WebRTC TURN/STUN and --oauth is commonly recommended, impact can be broad. This issue has been fixed in version 4.10.0.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| May 4, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by GitHub_M |
| June 18, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-43994 (coturn). Public exploit reference added. |
| June 18, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: GitHub_M) |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 1 row
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| coturn | coturn | — | < 4.10.0 | — |
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