CVE-2026-108830:
A weakness has been identified in meetecho janus-gateway up to 1.4.2. This affects an unknown part of the file src/plugins/janus_videoroom.c of the component VideoRoom. This manipulation causes race condition. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. The attack's complexity is rated as high. It is indicated that the exploitability is difficult. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. Patch name: 27c0d1af888153e818675b56a4e6267f62d57097. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue. The vendor was contacted early, responded in a very professional manner and quickly released a fixed version of the affected product.
CVE-2026-110717:
Janus WebRTC Server through 1.4.3 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the Record&Play plugin that allows unauthenticated attackers to write files outside recordings_path via the record request filename. Attackers can supply filenames with path separators to create or truncate files ending in -audio.mjr, -video.mjr or -data.mjr anywhere the Janus process can write outside protected folders.
CVE-2026-108830:
A weakness has been identified in meetecho janus-gateway up to 1.4.2. This affects an unknown part of the file src/plugins/janus_videoroom.c of the component VideoRoom. This manipulation causes race condition. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. The attack's complexity is rated as high. It is indicated that the exploitability is difficult. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. Patch name: 27c0d1af888153e818675b56a4e6267f62d57097. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue. The vendor was contacted early, responded in a very professional manner and quickly released a fixed version of the affected product.
CVE-2026-110717:
Janus WebRTC Server through 1.4.3 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the Record&Play plugin that allows unauthenticated attackers to write files outside recordings_path via the record request filename. Attackers can supply filenames with path separators to create or truncate files ending in -audio.mjr, -video.mjr or -data.mjr anywhere the Janus process can write outside protected folders.
CVE-2026-110717:
Janus WebRTC Server through 1.4.3 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the Record&Play plugin that allows unauthenticated attackers to write files outside recordings_path via the record request filename. Attackers can supply filenames with path separators to create or truncate files ending in -audio.mjr, -video.mjr or -data.mjr anywhere the Janus process can write outside protected folders.
1 issue postponed or untriaged:
CVE-2026-108830:
(postponed; to be fixed through a stable update)
A weakness has been identified in meetecho janus-gateway up to 1.4.2. This affects an unknown part of the file src/plugins/janus_videoroom.c of the component VideoRoom. This manipulation causes race condition. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. The attack's complexity is rated as high. It is indicated that the exploitability is difficult. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. Patch name: 27c0d1af888153e818675b56a4e6267f62d57097. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue. The vendor was contacted early, responded in a very professional manner and quickly released a fixed version of the affected product.
Depends on packages which need a new maintainer
normal
The packages that janus depends on which need a new maintainer are:
Among the 15 debian patches
available in version 1.4.1+ds-4 of the package,
we noticed the following issues:
3 patches
where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded
upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the
metadata to document its real status.
testing migrations
This package will soon be part of the auto-openssl transition. You might want to ensure that your package is ready for it.
You can probably find supplementary information in the
debian-release
archives or in the corresponding
release.debian.org
bug.
This package will soon be part of the auto-nanomsg transition. You might want to ensure that your package is ready for it.
You can probably find supplementary information in the
debian-release
archives or in the corresponding
release.debian.org
bug.
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