CVE-2026-55663: mediasoup: SCTP state cookie lacks cryptographic authentication, enabling unauthorized association establishment (RFC 9260 violation)
mediasoup’s built-in SCTP stack (introduced in v3.20.0) authenticates SCTP state cookies using only hardcoded magic byte sequences rather than a per-instance HMAC keyed with a secret, violating RFC 9260 Section 5.1.3. An on-path attacker targeting a PlainTransport with SCTP enabled (and no SRTP/DTLS protection) can craft a forged COOKIE-ECHO chunk that passes all validation, establishing an unauthorized SCTP association and gaining the ability to inject DataChannel messages as a trusted peer.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-p7x2-g5cq-fhmq
- github.com/versatica/mediasoup/commit/9c1a90a8f9206b965e727d134846fb42df4980a7
- github.com/versatica/mediasoup/pull/1829
- github.com/versatica/mediasoup/releases/tag/3.20.6
- github.com/versatica/mediasoup/security/advisories/GHSA-p7x2-g5cq-fhmq
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55663
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