FreeRDP before 3.29.0 Denial of Service via RDPEI PDU
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 34/100)
- 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: 0.52% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
- Fixed version: FreeRDP FreeRDP 3.29.0.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Upgrade to FreeRDP FreeRDP 3.29.0 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
FreeRDP before 3.29.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the RDPEI server channel handler that fails to validate maximum PDU body length before stream allocation. A malicious RDP client can send a header-only RDPEI message with a large declared body length to force excessive memory allocation on the server.
- Published
- Aug 1, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 11, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.5% · 43th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-20
Report tools
Action score
34
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 34 / 40 · 8.7 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.5%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- proof of concept
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · VulnCheck
- 8.7
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| freerdp | freerdp | cpe:2.3:a:freerdp:freerdp |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- freerdp freerdpbefore 3.29.0
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (VulnCheck). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
FreeRDP FreeRDP
- 3.29.0not affected
- before 3.29.0affected · semver
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux:10 | freerdp | before 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 |
| AlmaLinux:10 | freerdp-devel | before 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 |
| AlmaLinux:10 | freerdp-libs | before 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 |
| AlmaLinux:10 | freerdp-server | before 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 |
| AlmaLinux:10 | libwinpr | before 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 |
| AlmaLinux:10 | libwinpr-devel | before 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 |
| Debian:12 | freerdp2 | from 0 | — |
| Debian:13 | freerdp3 | from 0 | — |
| Debian:14 | freerdp3 | before 3.29.0+dfsg-1 | 3.29.0+dfsg-1 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | freerdp | before 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 | 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | freerdp-debuginfo | before 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 | 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | freerdp-debugsource | before 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 | 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | freerdp-devel | before 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 | 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | freerdp-libs | before 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 | 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | freerdp-libs-debuginfo | before 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 | 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | freerdp-server | before 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 | 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | freerdp-server-debuginfo | before 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 | 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | libwinpr | before 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 | 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | libwinpr-debuginfo | before 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 | 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | libwinpr-devel | before 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 | 2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.16 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | freerdp | before 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | freerdp-debuginfo | before 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | freerdp-debugsource | before 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | freerdp-devel | before 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 |
+8
Same product
freerdp: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2018-8787FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains an Integer Overflow that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function gdi_Bitmap_Decompress42Plan
- CVE-2018-8788FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains an Out-Of-Bounds Write of up to 4 bytes in function nsc_rle_decode() that results in a memory co41Plan
- CVE-2018-8786FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains an Integer Truncation that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function update_read_bitmap_41Plan
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-67294Aug 1, 2026 · FreeRDP before 3.29.0 TLS Certificate EKU Bypass37Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-67295Aug 1, 2026 · FreeRDP before 3.29.0 Path Traversal via drive redirection21Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-67297Aug 1, 2026 · FreeRDP before 3.29.0 Resource Exhaustion via chunked HTTP response34Monitor
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 |
|---|---|---|
| FreeRDP FreeRDP | 3.29.0 | Vendor (CNA) |
| almalinux:freerdp | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · AlmaLinux:10 | Package registry (OSV) |
| almalinux:freerdp-devel | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · AlmaLinux:10 | Package registry (OSV) |
| almalinux:freerdp-libs | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · AlmaLinux:10 | Package registry (OSV) |
| almalinux:freerdp-server | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · AlmaLinux:10 | Package registry (OSV) |
| almalinux:libwinpr | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · AlmaLinux:10 | Package registry (OSV) |
| almalinux:libwinpr-devel | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · AlmaLinux:10 | Package registry (OSV) |
| debian:freerdp3 | 3.29.0+dfsg-1 · Debian:14 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:freerdp | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:freerdp-debuginfo | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:freerdp-debugsource | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:freerdp-devel | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:freerdp-libs | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:freerdp-libs-debuginfo | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:freerdp-server | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:freerdp-server-debuginfo | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:libwinpr | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:libwinpr-debuginfo | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:libwinpr-devel | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| rocky linux:freerdp | 2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.10 · Rocky Linux:10 | 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.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- 1121984919reporter
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
- CVE-2026-25941157 days apartFreeRDP: vuln_1_15_1 RDPGFX WIRE_TO_SURFACE_2 Out-of-Bounds Read32Monitor
- CVE-2026-11137476 days apartFreeRDP from 3.30.0 before 3.32.0 Resource Exhaustion via rdpecam StartStreamsRequest24Monitor
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-26-0722 · Aug 3, 2026(FreeRDP Güvenlik Zafiyeti)
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- Integrity
- Availability
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- X
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-20 · Improper Input ValidationCVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment VariablesCAPEC-10likelihood: High · High
- Server Side Include (SSI) InjectionCAPEC-101likelihood: High · High
- Cross Zone ScriptingCAPEC-104likelihood: Medium · High
- Command Line Execution through SQL InjectionCAPEC-108likelihood: Low · Very High
- Object Relational Mapping InjectionCAPEC-109likelihood: Low · High
- SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter TamperingCAPEC-110likelihood: High · Very High
- Double EncodingCAPEC-120likelihood: Low · Medium
- Subverting Environment Variable ValuesCAPEC-13likelihood: High · Very High
ATT&CK techniques
- Obfuscated Files or InformationT1027
- Masquerading: Invalid Code SignatureT1036.001
- Steal Web Session CookieT1539
- Subvert Trust Controls: Code SigningT1553.002
- Impair Defenses:Impair Command History LoggingT1562.003
- Hijack Execution Flow:Dynamic Linker HijackingT1574.006
- Hijack Execution Flow:Path Interception by PATH Environment VariableT1574.007
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.