Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting coturn/coturn package, versions [,4.16.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-COTURNCOTURN-19427499
  • published29 Aug 2026
  • disclosed19 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-68555  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade coturn/coturn to version 4.16.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in the mobile_begin_transition process. An attacker can cause the server to retain unbounded server-side sessions and exhaust process memory by repeatedly resuming one allocation from fresh UDP 5-tuples without completing a handoff when the server enables the --mobility option. This is only exploitable if the --mobility option is enabled.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1