CVSS 4.0
8.7 highCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCVE-2026-40033
High (8.7) in freerdp freerdp. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
FreeRDP before 3.26.0 contains a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in gdi_CacheToSurface that allows remote attackers to write out-of-bounds heap memory. The vulnerability occurs because rectangle validation clamps coordinates to UINT16_MAX but performs copy operations using unclamped cache entry dimensions, enabling malicious RDP servers to trigger large out-of-bounds writes and potentially achieve remote code execution or client crash.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- EPSS
- 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 71% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-122, CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- freerdp:freerdp
References
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/d7508ebcd82842a691ae4941e5104d14240a89ae
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/pull/12713
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-p6r2-4hgm-m6ff
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/freerdp-heap-buffer-overflow-in-gdi-cachetosurface-via-rectangle-validation-bypass
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36203