CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-121400

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.31%

24th percentile - higher than 24% of all known CVEs

Summary

FreeRDP before 3.32.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in rdg_process_control_packet. A malicious RD Gateway can send an incomplete keepalive control packet with an 0xFFFF length header and withhold the body, causing an unbounded no-progress read loop that spins one client thread at full CPU.

Risk Assessment

An attacker controlling an RD Gateway can exhaust client CPU resources, leading to hang or unavailability of the service. This affects availability of systems using FreeRDP for RD Gateway connections.

Recommendation

Update FreeRDP to version 3.32.2 or later. Consider limiting trust in RD Gateway servers and monitoring unusual CPU usage by RDP clients.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS