VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-40186

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-08-31
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Description

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. Affected versions are subject to an IntegerOverflow leading to Out-Of-Bound Write Vulnerability in the `gdi_CreateSurface` function. This issue affects FreeRDP based clients only. FreeRDP proxies are not affected as image decoding is not done by a proxy. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.11.0 and 3.0.0-beta3. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-190
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-190

Primary references