Out-of-bounds Read in Freerdp
CVE-2020-11018
In FreeRDP less than or equal to 2.0.0, a possible resource exhaustion vulnerability can be performed. Malicious clients could trigger out of bound reads causing memory allocation with random size. This has been fixed in 2.1.0.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.019 (77.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Freerdp — versions <= 2.0.0
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 10.0
- Opensuse Leap — versions 15.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- security-advisories@github.com (Third Party Advisory)
- security-advisories@github.com (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- security-advisories@github.com (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-11018?
- CVE-2020-11018 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freerdp, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-05-29.
- How severe is CVE-2020-11018?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2020-11018 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.