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Alpine: multiple xrdp packages: security update to 0.9.13.1-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427116

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The xrdp-sesman service before version 0.9.13.1 can be crashed by connecting over port 3350 and supplying
 a malicious payload. Once the xrdp-sesman process is dead, an unprivileged attacker on the server could
 then proceed to start their own imposter sesman service listening on port 3350. This will allow them to
 capture any user credentials that are submitted to XRDP and approve or reject arbitrary login credentials.
 For xorgxrdp sessions in particular, this allows an unauthorized user to hijack an existing session. This
 is a buffer overflow attack, so there may be a risk of arbitrary code execution as well. (CVE-2020-4044)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-4044

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 427116

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-4044

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-4044