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CVE-2020-11046
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in FreeRDP
Medium5.5EPSS 1.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
In FreeRDP after 1.0 and before 2.0.0, there is a stream out-of-bounds seek in update_read_synchronize that could lead to a later out-of-bounds read.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 38 days later
· 38 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low2.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
References (7)
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-hx48-wmmm-mr5q (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/6006 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/ed53cd148f43cbab905eaa0f5308c2bf3c48cc37 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- USN-4379-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- USN-4382-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200829 [SECURITY] [DLA 2356-1] freerdp security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20231007 [SECURITY] [DLA 3606-1] freerdp2 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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