CVE-2026-64620CWE-122

FreeRDP before 3.28.0 Heap Buffer Overflow via crypto_rsa_common

Critical · published July 20, 2026

CVSS v4.0
9.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
59.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

FreeRDP before 3.28.0 (affected <=3.27.1) contains a heap-based buffer overflow in crypto_rsa_common() (libfreerdp/crypto/crypto.c). The function writes the modular-exponentiation result into the caller's output buffer via BN_bn2bin() and only afterward checks output_length > out_length, so out-of-bounds bytes are written before the bounds check. On the server side, when a client selects RDP Standard Security, the encrypted client random is decrypted into a fixed 32-byte buffer. Because the server publishes its RSA public key, an unauthenticated attacker can forge a ciphertext whose decrypted value is up to the full modulus length (e.g. 256 bytes for RSA-2048), overflowing the 32-byte heap buffer by up to ~224 attacker-controlled bytes pre-authentication, resulting in denial of service.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
9.3 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00913 · 59.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2026-07-20T12:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 JUL 12:04Z
    FreeRDP before 3.28.0 Heap Buffer Overflow via crypto_rsa_common
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