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High · 7.2 CVE-2026-27624 EUVD-2026-8620

Coturn: IPv4-mapped IPv6 (::ffff:0:0/96) bypasses denied-peer-ip ACL

Published Feb 25, 2026 · Updated Feb 25, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Coturn is a free open source implementation of TURN and STUN Server. Coturn is commonly configured to block loopback and internal ranges using "denied-peer-ip" and/or default loopback restrictions. CVE-2020-26262 addressed bypasses involving "0.0.0.0", "[::1]" and "[::]", but IPv4-mapped IPv6 is not covered. When sending a "CreatePermission" or "ChannelBind" request with the "XOR-PEER-ADDRESS" value of "::ffff:127.0.0.1", a successful response is received, even though "127.0.0.0/8" is blocked via "denied-peer-ip". The root cause is that, prior to the updated fix implemented in version 4.9.0, three functions in "src/client/ns_turn_ioaddr.c" do not check "IN6_IS_ADDR_V4MAPPED". "ioa_addr_is_loopback()" checks "127.x.x.x" (AF_INET) and "::1" (AF_INET6), but not "::ffff:127.0.0.1." "ioa_addr_is_zero()" checks "0.0.0.0" and "::", but not "::ffff:0.0.0.0." "addr_less_eq()" used by "ioa_addr_in_range()" for "denied-peer-ip" matching: when the range is AF_INET and the peer is AF_INET6, the comparison returns 0 without extracting the embedded IPv4. Version 4.9.0 contains an updated fix to address the bypass of the fix for CVE-2020-26262.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
coturn coturn < 4.9.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 coturn 4.12.0-1 —
Debian 13 coturn No fix yet —
Debian 12 coturn No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 coturn No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS coturn No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 coturn No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS coturn No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS coturn No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS coturn No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS coturn No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS coturn No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed coturn 4.9.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10375-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 coturn 4.14.0-bp160.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21184-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 coturn 4.9.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 coturn 4.10.0-r0 —

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