RustDesk's Windows clipboard redirection copies a peer-supplied length into a fixed-size caller buffer without an upper bound check. When an OLE paste consumer such as explorer.exe calls IStream::Read with a buffer of cb bytes, CliprdrStream_Read in libs/clipboard/src/windows/wf_cliprdr.c requests that many bytes of a remote file through cliprdr_send_request_filecontents and then executes CopyMemory(pv, clipboard->req_fdata, clipboard->req_fsize), where req_fsize is taken verbatim from the peer's CLIPRDR FileContentsResponse by wf_cliprdr_server_file_contents_response (req_fsize = fileContentsResponse->cbRequested) and is never clamped to cb anywhere in the chain. The function's only length comparison, req_fsize < cb, handles the short-read case and is evaluated after the copy has already occurred. A malicious or compromised peer that answers a small file-contents read with an oversized response therefore writes attacker-chosen data past the end of the paste consumer's heap buffer when the local user pastes clipboard file contents offered by the remote side. The file is a fork of FreeRDP's client/Windows/wf_cliprdr.c, where the same defect is CVE-2026-68579, fixed in FreeRDP 3.30.0.
https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/pull/15515
https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/blob/1.4.9/libs/clipboard/src/windows/wf_cliprdr.c
https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-m37j-jcr2-8gcc
Published: 2026-08-24
Updated: 2026-08-24
Base Score: 9.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:C
Severity: High
Base Score: 9.6
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
Severity: Critical
Base Score: 8.5
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:L/SI:H/SA:H
Severity: High
EPSS: 0.003