CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-67294

MediumCVSS 5.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.27%

19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs

Summary

FreeRDP before 3.29.0 improperly validates the Extended Key Usage (EKU) purpose of the peer certificate during client-side server TLS authentication. When server-purpose verification fails, the code falls back to client-purpose and any-purpose verification, allowing a certificate valid only for clientAuth to be accepted as the RDP server certificate.

Risk Assessment

In environments relying on EKU separation between client and server certificates, a clientAuth-only certificate issued by a trusted CA can bypass server certificate purpose validation.

Recommendation

Update FreeRDP to version 3.29.0 or later, which includes the fix for EKU validation.

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Original NVD description (English source)

FreeRDP before 3.29.0 improperly validates the Extended Key Usage (EKU) purpose of the peer certificate during client-side server TLS authentication. In x509_utils_verify(), when server-purpose (X509_PURPOSE_SSL_SERVER) verification fails, the code falls back to client-purpose and any-purpose verification, so a trusted, hostname-matching certificate valid only for clientAuth can be accepted as the RDP server certificate. In environments relying on EKU separation between client and server certificates, this allows a clientAuth-only certificate issued by a trusted CA to bypass server certificate purpose validation.

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