NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting coturn/coturn package, versions [,4.5.1.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
1.44% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-COTURNCOTURN-2366007
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Feb 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Feb 2020

CVE-2020-6062  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade coturn/coturn to version 4.5.1.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the way CoTURN 4.5.1.1 web server parses POST requests. A specially crafted HTTP POST request can lead to server crash and denial of service. An attacker needs to send an HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.

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