Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Restund TURN servers before 0.4.15 could be abused to reach services bound to localhost. A service assumed private, such as Restund's status interface, could become reachable through the relay. This mainly matters where Restund is internet-facing and internal localhost or nearby network services are trusted by design.
Executive priority
Prioritize remediation where Restund is public-facing or colocated with sensitive local services. The issue can expose private administrative surfaces without authentication, but urgency is lower if TURN is disabled or the server is isolated.
Technical view
The TURN module allowed relays to loopback and other special address ranges. An unauthenticated network attacker could request a relay to a localhost target, crossing trust boundaries. Sources state the fix blocks loopback, any, link-local, and broadcast addresses; workarounds include disabling status or TURN and restricting relay egress.
Likely exposure
Exposure is likely limited to organizations running wireapp/restund versions before 0.4.15, especially with TURN enabled and localhost-only administrative or internal services on the same host.
Exploitation context
The bundle does not show KEV listing or confirmed active exploitation. Exploitation is plausible remotely when the TURN service is reachable and can relay to trusted local services, but source evidence does not prove real-world abuse.
Researcher notes
CVE-2021-21382 is CWE-668 with CVSS 8.6. The core issue is unsafe exposure of private address scopes through TURN relaying. Related coturn and RTCsec references support the broader class of TURN relay access-control risk, not active exploitation of Restund.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade Restund to version 0.4.15 or later.
- Disable the Restund status module if not required.
- Disable the TURN module if STUN-only operation is acceptable.
- Restrict TURN relay destinations with firewall rules.
- Isolate TURN servers from sensitive internal services and VPC resources.
Validation and detection
- Inventory internet-facing Restund deployments and confirm versions.
- Review configuration for enabled TURN and status modules.
- Check whether localhost-only services run on the TURN host.
- Verify firewall rules prevent relays to sensitive internal ranges.
- Confirm deployed builds include the special-address relay block.
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- High
- CVSS
- 8.6 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N3.94Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
8.6HighVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/wireapp/restund/security/advisories/GHSA-96j5-w9jq-pv2xCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/coturn/coturn/security/advisories/GHSA-6g6j-r9rf-cm7pCVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/wireapp/restund/pull/7CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://docs.wire.com/understand/restund.htmlCVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/wireapp/ansible-restund/blob/master/templates/restund.conf.j2#L40-L43CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0732CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.rtcsec.com/post/2021/01/details-about-cve-2020-26262-bypass-of-coturns-default-access-control-protection/#further-concerns-what-elseCVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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