CVE-2022-23613: Privilege escalation on xrdp
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.48% (FIRST EPSS).
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- Fixed version: neutrinolabs xrdp 0.9.18.1.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Upgrade to neutrinolabs xrdp 0.9.18.1 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
xrdp is an open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server. In affected versions an integer underflow leading to a heap overflow in the sesman server allows any unauthenticated attacker which is able to locally access a sesman server to execute code as root. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.9.18.1 and above. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.
- Published
- Feb 7, 2022
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 42th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-191
Report tools
Action score
31
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 7.8
- CNA · GitHub_M
- 7.8
- agree
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- No public exploit code on record
- A fix has been released
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What does it mean in your environment?
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Is your version affected?
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| neutrinolabs | xrdp | cpe:2.3:a:neutrinolabs:xrdp |
| fedoraproject | fedora | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- fedoraproject fedora34
- fedoraproject fedora35
- neutrinolabs xrdp0.9.17
- neutrinolabs xrdp0.9.18
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
neutrinolabs xrdp
- >= 0.9.17, < 0.9.18.1affected
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | xrdp | before 0.9.17-2.1 | 0.9.17-2.1 |
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | xrdp | before 0.9.19-1.1 | 0.9.19-1.1 |
Same product
neutrinolabs: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2026-41252xrdp: lib_palette_update Heap Buffer Overflow & RCE39Monitor
- CVE-2025-68670xrdp improperly checks bounds of domain string length, which leads to Stack-based Buffer Overflow39Monitor
- CVE-2024-39917xrdp allows an ininite number of login attempts39Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2017-16927Nov 23, 2017 · The scp_v0s_accept function in sesman/libscp/libscp_v0.c in the session manager in xrdp through 0.9.4 uses an untrusted integer as a write l33Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2020-4044Jun 30, 2020 · Local users can perform a buffer overflow attack against the xrdp-sesman service and then impersonate it32Monitor
- Later →CVE-2022-23468Dec 9, 2022 · Buffer Overflow in xrdp39Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| neutrinolabs xrdp | 0.9.18.1 · description | Vendor (CNA) |
| debian:xrdp | 0.9.17-2.1 · Debian:12 | Package registry (OSV) |
| opensuse:xrdp | 0.9.19-1.1 · openSUSE:Tumbleweed | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-23-0633 · Nov 9, 2023(Xrdp Güvenlik Zafiyeti)
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-191 · Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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- github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/security/advisories/GHSA-8h98-h426-xf32
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K5ONRGARKHGFU2CIEQ7E6M6VJZEM5XWW/
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3XGFJNQMNXHBD3J7CBM4YURYEDXROWZ/
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.