CVE-2026-55238CWE-126

xrdp: Malformed Confirm Active capability sets cause out-of-bounds reads

Medium · published July 20, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

xrdp is an open source RDP server. Versions 0.10.6 and prior contain a vulnerability concerning the processing of RDP Confirm Active PDU, where during the capability negotiation phase, the parser did not perform sufficient length validation for specific capability sets. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted RDP packet containing malformed capability data. Due to missing bounds checks, the xrdp process may perform out-of-bounds memory reads, which can result in the termination of the service (Denial of Service). However, since xrdp forks a new process for each connection by default, an out-of-bounds read causing a process crash is unlikely to bring down the entire xrdp service. This issue has been fixed in version 0.10.6.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00516 · 43.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-126 · Buffer Over-read
Published
2026-07-20T17:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 JUL 17:05Z
    xrdp: Malformed Confirm Active capability sets cause out-of-bounds reads
    cvelistv5