🛡️ CVE-2023-40186
🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-190 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-190
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-31
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-11-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
fedora
freerdp

References

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