Coturn
CVE-2020-6062
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A10:2025 - Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions
ASVS 5.0
V16 - Security Logging and Error Handling Null pointer safety, defensive checks
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the way CoTURN 4.5.1.1 web server parses POST requests. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Check pointers before dereferencing. Use static analysis tools to detect null pointer paths.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476), which allows attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer. 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. Affected products include: Coturn Project Coturn, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Canonical Ubuntu Linux.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
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.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
A null pointer dereference occurs when a program attempts to access memory through a pointer that has been set to NULL (address 0x0).
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
An exploitable heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the way CoTURN 4.5.1.1 web server parses POST requests. R
Coturn TURN/STUN server contains an access control bypass that allows remote attackers to reach blocked internal address
Stack buffer overflow in Coturn's OAuth token decoder (decode_oauth_token_gcm()) lets remote unauthenticated attackers c
Remote denial of service in Coturn TURN/STUN server allows unauthenticated attackers to crash ARM64 deployments with a s
In coturn before version 4.5.1.3, there is an issue whereby STUN/TURN response buffer is not initialized properly. Rated
Server-side request forgery in coturn TURN/STUN server before 4.13.0 lets an authenticated TURN client bypass the defaul
SQL injection in the Coturn TURN/STUN server's HTTPS admin panel (versions prior to 4.12.0) allows an authenticated admi
Format string injection in Coturn prior to 4.13.0 lets an authenticated TURN user crash the relay server or leak stack m
Unauthenticated remote attackers can leak residual stack memory from Coturn 4.10.0 by sending a TURN Allocate request wi
Memory exhaustion in Coturn 4.15.0 allows an authenticated TURN user to crash or degrade server availability by abusing
Arbitrary file overwrite in Coturn prior to 4.13.0 is possible through the CLI management interface's `psd` (print sessi
Stored XSS in Coturn's web-admin HTTPS interface (all versions prior to 4.11.0) allows a TURN-level attacker to inject p
GitHub PoC
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