CVE-2026-26955: high-severity vulnerability in FreeRDP
FreeRDP has Out-of-bounds Write
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 0.6%
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to version 3.23.0, a malicious RDP server can trigger a heap buffer overflow in FreeRDP clients using the GDI surface pipeline (e.g., `xfreerdp`) by sending an RDPGFX ClearCodec surface command with an out-of-bounds destination rectangle. The `gdi_SurfaceCommand_ClearCodec()` handler does not call `is_within_surface()` to validate the command rectangle against the destination surface dimensions, allowing attacker-controlled `cmd->left`/`cmd->top` (and subcodec rectangle offsets) to reach image copy routines that write into `surface->data` without bounds enforcement. The OOB write corrupts an adjacent `gdiGfxSurface` struct's `codecs*` pointer with attacker-controlled pixel data, and corruption of `codecs*` is sufficient to reach an indirect function pointer call (`NSC_CONTEXT.decode` at `nsc.c:500`) on a subsequent codec command — full instruction pointer (RIP) control demonstrated in exploitability harness. Users should upgrade to version 3.23.0 to receive a patch.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
FreeRDP · FreeRDPRelated CVEs — FreeRDP
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-45700HIGHHeap-buffer-overflow write in planar bitmap decoderEPSS 6.1%CVE-2026-44420HIGHFreeRDP cliprdr server heap-buffer-overflow via undersized capabilitySetLength in CB_CLIP_CAPSEPSS 4.6%CVE-2024-32459CRITICALFreeRDP Out-Of-Bounds Read in ncrush_decompressEPSS 3.7%CVE-2022-24882CRITICALServer side NTLM does not properly check parameters in FreeRDPEPSS 2.8%CVE-2022-24883HIGHFreeRDP Server authentication might allow invalid credentials to passEPSS 2.3%CVE-2020-11019MEDIUMOut of bound read in update_recv in FreeRDPEPSS 2.3%
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19033https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5936https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5939https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6004https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6005https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6384https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6385https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6395https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6396https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6616https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6665https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6712