CVE-2026-55192
HighCVSS 8.2Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk39th percentile - higher than 39% of all known CVEs
Summary
In FreeRDP before 3.27.0, H.264 decoder backends can return YUV planes sized from the bitstream without comparing to the RDPGFX surface dimensions. A malicious RDP server can provide an AVC420 or AVC444 bitstream with a smaller decoded frame, causing out-of-bounds reads in the decoder. This can disclose client memory or crash the client.
Risk Assessment
A malicious RDP server can access client memory or cause a crash, compromising confidentiality and availability.
Recommendation
Update FreeRDP to version 3.27.0 or later, which includes the fix.
Other vulnerabilities in FreeRDP
See all- CVE-2026-109953Medium
FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 contains an insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability where the /restricted-admin option fails to suppress CredSSP credential delegation, sending the cleartext password to the RDP server. A compromised or man-in-the-middle destination host can decode TSPasswordCreds and the Client Info PDU to obtain reusable administrative domain, username, and password values.
- CVE-2026-109952Medium
The FreeRDP client 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 does not check a server-selected PROTOCOL_RDSTLS or PROTOCOL_HYBRID_EX against its enabled protocol set in nego_process_negotiation_response(), allowing a security protocol downgrade. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle can select RDSTLS to override /sec:nla pinning, complete authentication with an all-zero cookie, and receive the user's cleartext password in the Client Info PDU.
- CVE-2026-109951Medium
FreeRDP 3.17.1 before 3.32.0 contains a heap buffer over-read vulnerability in DynvcTrackerHandleCreateBack of the freerdp-proxy DRDYNVC channel handler that allows malicious backend RDP servers to read heap memory out of bounds. Attackers can send a CREATE_REQUEST_PDU whose channel name lacks a NUL byte, causing an unbounded snprintf read that leaks memory into proxy logs or crashes the process.
- CVE-2026-109950Medium
FreeRDP from 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A malicious RD Gateway can set MsgBytes far larger than the NDR string ActualCount in consent or service messages, causing UTF-8 conversion to read past the stream allocation and crash the client.
- CVE-2026-109949Medium
FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 contains an improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts in its virtual smartcard GIDS implementation, where the PIN retry counter is stored per-handle. A malicious RDP server can exhaust the counter with VERIFY APDUs, then reset attempts via a new SCardConnect, enabling unbounded online brute-forcing of the smartcard PIN.
- CVE-2026-109948Medium
FreeRDP from 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 contains an uninitialized memory disclosure vulnerability in smartcard_Transmit_Call. A malicious RDP server can send SCardTransmit requests with an invalid card handle and nonzero receive length, causing smartcard_pack_transmit_return to serialize up to 66,560 uninitialized heap bytes.
- CVE-2026-109947Medium
FreeRDP from 3.20.1 before 3.32.0 contains an uncontrolled resource allocation vulnerability. A malicious RDP server can send IRP_MJ_READ with Length 0xffffffff, causing roughly 4 GiB of zeroed allocation on 64-bit builds or an under-reserved buffer on 32-bit builds.
- CVE-2026-109946Medium
FreeRDP 3.11.0 before 3.32.0 does not validate that AVC444 and AVC444v2 region widths are even before YUV444 conversion, so an odd width reaches an assertion and aborts the client. A malicious or compromised RDP server can terminate a connected FreeRDP client after RDPGFX AVC444 negotiation by sending an in-bounds region rectangle with an odd width.
- CVE-2026-109945Medium
FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability in smartcard emulation when SCARD_IOCTL_DISCONNECT and SCARD_IOCTL_TRANSMIT operate concurrently on one card handle. A malicious RDP server can overlap these IRPs through separate context workers to free and reuse the SCardHandle, causing client-process heap corruption and termination.
- CVE-2026-109944Medium
FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 does not remove card handles when Emulate_SCardReleaseContext releases a smartcard-emulation context, so Emulate_SCardTransmit later looks up the deleted parent context and reaches a terminating WINPR_ASSERT. A malicious RDP server can crash a connecting client with smartcard emulation and redirection enabled by releasing a context, establishing another, and issuing SCardTransmit with the stale card handle.
Original NVD description (English source)
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.27.0, FreeRDP H.264 decoder backends can return YUV planes sized from the bitstream without comparing the decoded width and height to the RDPGFX surface dimensions used to validate region rectangles. A malicious RDP server can provide an AVC420 or AVC444 bitstream whose decoded frame is smaller than the negotiated surface, causing yuv420_context_decode and the YUV-to-RGB conversion paths to read beyond the decoder-owned planes in libfreerdp/codec/h264.c and the selected H.264 backend. This can disclose client memory or crash the client. This issue is fixed in version 3.27.0.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

