CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-121404

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.38%

33th percentile - higher than 33% of all known CVEs

Summary

FreeRDP before 3.32.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the shadow server that allows authenticated RDP clients to spin server threads by sending zero-length drdynvc DATA PDUs. Attackers can send empty DATA messages on opened audin or rdpgfx channels, so that FreeRDP_WTSVirtualChannelRead never consumes them, consuming full CPU cores until disconnect.

Risk Assessment

An authenticated RDP client can remotely exhaust CPU resources on a FreeRDP shadow server, causing performance degradation or denial of service. This can disrupt remote desktop service delivery.

Recommendation

Update FreeRDP to version 3.32.2 or later. Monitor CPU usage and restrict access to the shadow server.

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Original NVD description (English source)

FreeRDP before 3.32.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the shadow server that allows authenticated RDP clients to spin server threads by sending zero-length drdynvc DATA PDUs. Attackers can send empty DATA messages on opened audin or rdpgfx channels, so that FreeRDP_WTSVirtualChannelRead never consumes them, consuming full CPU cores until disconnect.

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