What is CVE-2026-96541?

CVE-2026-96541 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-09-23.

How severe is CVE-2026-96541?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

CVE-2026-96541

A denial-of-service flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop. An unauthenticated remote attacker can open RDP connections without completing the handshake and retain the connection-throttling slots indefinitely because no pre-authentication handshake deadline is enforced. By exhausting the global connection limit, an attacker can prevent new RDP clients from connecting until a holding socket is closed.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2026-09-23 · last modified 2026-09-23.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96541 (vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking)
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/issues/356

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-96541?: CVE-2026-96541 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-09-23.
How severe is CVE-2026-96541?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.