CVE-2022-39283
FreeRDP may read and display out of bounds data
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients. All FreeRDP based clients when using the `/video` command line switch might read uninitialized data, decode it as audio/video and display the result. FreeRDP based server implementations are not affected. This issue has been patched in version 2.8.1. If you cannot upgrade do not use the `/video` switch.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 40 days later
· 40 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 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
Affected products
References (8)
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/releases/tag/2.8.1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-6cf9-3328-qrvh (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- GLSA-202210-24 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-d6310a1308 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-e733724edb (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-fd6e43dec8 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20231117 [SECURITY] [DLA 3654-1] freerdp2 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00016.html (opens in a new tab)
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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