CVE-2022-23613
Privilege escalation on xrdp
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
xrdp is an open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server. In affected versions an integer underflow leading to a heap overflow in the sesman server allows any unauthenticated attacker which is able to locally access a sesman server to execute code as root. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.9.18.1 and above. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 19 days later
· 19 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 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 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.49% · top 58% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected >= 0.9.17, < 0.9.18.1
References (4)
- https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/security/advisories/GHSA-8h98-h426-xf32 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/commit/4def30ab8ea445cdc06832a44c3ec40a506a0ffa (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-4283d4695d (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-727e3914e1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_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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