# CVE-2026-55663: mediasoup: SCTP state cookie lacks cryptographic authentication, enabling unauthorized association establishment (RFC 9260 violation)

- Also known as: GHSA-P7X2-G5CQ-FHMQ
- Severity: CVSS 5.6 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.20.6, 0.22.5
- Published: 2026-08-25 · Updated: 2026-08-25

## Affected

- versatica mediasoup: from 3.20.0, fixed in 3.20.6; from 0.22.0, fixed in 0.22.5
- mediasoup (npm): from 3.20.0, fixed in 3.20.6
- mediasoup (crates.io): from 0.22.0, fixed in 0.22.5

## Description

mediasoup is a WebRTC video conferencing system. From version 3.20.0 until 3.20.6 for the npm package and from 0.22.0 until 0.22.5 for the Rust crate, mediasoup's built-in SCTP stack authenticates state cookies using only the hardcoded msworker and 0xAD81 magic values instead of a per-instance secret and HMAC, contrary to RFC 9260 Section 5.1.3. The cookie structure and validation in worker/include/RTC/SCTP/association/StateCookie.hpp and worker/src/RTC/SCTP/association/StateCookie.cpp allow an on-path attacker targeting PlainTransport or PipeTransport with SCTP enabled and without DTLS protection to forge a COOKIE-ECHO whose packet verification tag matches the attacker-controlled localVerificationTag. The forged cookie passes StateCookie::IsMediasoupStateCookie() and Association::HandleReceivedCookieEchoChunk(), establishes an unauthorized SCTP association, and permits DataChannel message injection as a trusted peer. WebRtcTransport is not affected because its SCTP runs inside DTLS. This issue is fixed in npm version 3.20.6 and Rust crate version 0.22.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on versatica mediasoup, mediasoup, upgrade to a fixed version (3.20.6, 0.22.5) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup/security/advisories/GHSA-p7x2-g5cq-fhmq
- https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup/pull/1829
- https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup/commit/9c1a90a8f9206b965e727d134846fb42df4980a7
- https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup/releases/tag/3.20.6

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