CVE-2026-121400

high

Description

FreeRDP before 3.32.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in rdg_process_control_packet that allows a malicious RD Gateway to exhaust client CPU by sending an incomplete keepalive control packet. Attackers completing the RDG tunnel-open exchange then send an eight-byte header with packetLength 0xFFFF and withhold the body, causing an unbounded no-progress read loop that spins one client thread at full CPU.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/freerdp-before-3.32.2-cpu-exhaustion-via-rdg-control-packet

https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-x4x6-2hrm-hvq9

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-115932

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-11-03

Updated: 2026-11-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0031