CVE-2023-40186
IntegerOverflow leading to Out-Of-Bound Write Vulnerability in FreeRDP
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 22 days later
· 22 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 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 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
References (8)
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-hcj4-3c3r-5j3v (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/blob/fee2b10ba1154f952769a53eb608f044782e22f8/libfreerdp/gdi/gfx.c#L1156-L1165 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OH2ATH2BKDNKCJAU4WPPXK4SHLE3UJUV/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A6LLDAPEXRDJOM3PREDDD267SSNT77DP/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IHMTGKCZXJPQOR5ZD2I4GPDNP2DKRXMF/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00008.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-16 (opens in a new tab)x_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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