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🛡️ CVE-2025-48817 — remote-desktop-client

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-23 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Relative path traversal in Remote Desktop Client allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-48817 is classified as CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal. Relative path sequences in user input are not neutralised, so requests can climb out of the intended directory.

Affected software

CVE-2025-48817 is recorded against 17 packages.

  • remote-desktop-client (fixed in 1.2.6353)
  • windows-10-1507 (fixed in 10.0.10240.21073)
  • windows-10-1607 (fixed in 10.0.14393.8246)
  • windows-10-1809 (fixed in 10.0.17763.7558)
  • windows-10-21h2 (fixed in 10.0.19044.6093)
  • windows-10-22h2 (fixed in 10.0.19045.6093)
  • windows-11-22h2 (fixed in 10.0.22621.5624)
  • windows-11-23h2 (fixed in 10.0.22631.5624)
  • windows-11-24h2 (fixed in 10.0.26100.4652)
  • windows-app (fixed in 2.0.559.0)
  • windows-server-2008
  • windows-server-2012
  • windows-server-2016 (fixed in 10.0.14393.8246)
  • windows-server-2019 (fixed in 10.0.17763.7558)
  • windows-server-2022 (fixed in 10.0.20348.3932)
  • windows-server-2022-23h2 (fixed in 10.0.25398.1732)
  • windows-server-2025 (fixed in 10.0.26100.4652)

Timeline and source

Published on 8 July 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

msrc.microsoft.com

Other advisories for this package

remote-desktop-client has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-23
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-08
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
remote-desktop-client 1.2.6353
windows-10-1507 10.0.10240.21073
windows-10-1607 10.0.14393.8246
windows-10-1809 10.0.17763.7558
windows-10-21h2 10.0.19044.6093
windows-10-22h2 10.0.19045.6093
windows-11-22h2 10.0.22621.5624
windows-11-23h2 10.0.22631.5624
windows-11-24h2 10.0.26100.4652
windows-app 2.0.559.0
windows-server-2008
windows-server-2012
windows-server-2016 10.0.14393.8246
windows-server-2019 10.0.17763.7558
windows-server-2022 10.0.20348.3932
windows-server-2022-23h2 10.0.25398.1732
windows-server-2025 10.0.26100.4652

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