# CVE-2026-54909: Pion STUN vulnerable to remote denial of service via panic while parsing a malformed XOR-MAPPED-ADDRESS attribute

- Also known as: GO-2026-6163, GHSA-34RH-WP3J-6CXC
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.1.3, 3.1.5
- Published: 2026-07-31 · Updated: 2026-08-03

## Affected

- pion stun: fixed in 3.1.3
- github.com/pion/stun/v3 (Go): fixed in 3.1.5
- github.com/pion/stun/v2 (Go): through 2.0.0
- github.com/pion/stun (Go): through 1.23.1

## Description

pion/stun is a Go implementation of STUN. Prior to 3.1.3, XORMappedAddress.GetFromAs can panic while parsing a malformed short XOR-MAPPED-ADDRESS attribute in STUN or ICE Binding-response parsing paths, allowing remote denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 3.1.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pion stun, github.com/pion/stun/v3, github.com/pion/stun/v2 or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (3.1.3, 3.1.5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/pion/stun/security/advisories/GHSA-34rh-wp3j-6cxc
- https://github.com/pion/stun/pull/278
- https://github.com/pion/stun/commit/fa9f074a33a8059c76c960b1fbee39f308002423
- https://github.com/pion/stun/releases/tag/v3.1.3

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