{"id":"CVE-2024-39917","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-39917","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:41:47.647Z","title":"xrdp is an open source RDP server. xrdp versions prior to 0.10.0 have a vulnerability that allows attackers to make an infinite number of login attempts.","description":"xrdp is an open source RDP server. xrdp versions prior to 0.10.0 have a vulnerability that allows attackers to make an infinite number of login attempts. The number of max login attempts is supposed to be  limited by a configuration parameter `MaxLoginRetry` in `/etc/xrdp/sesman.ini`. However, this mechanism was not effectively working. As a result, xrdp allows an infinite number of login attempts. ","published":"2024-07-12T16:15:05.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:43:01.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-307"],"affected":["neutrinolabs/xrdp"],"epss":{"score":0.00607,"percentile":0.48821,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.61%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/commit/19c111c74c913ecc6e4ba9a738ed929a79d2ae8f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/security/advisories/GHSA-7w22-h4w7-8j5j","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/commit/19c111c74c913ecc6e4ba9a738ed929a79d2ae8f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/security/advisories/GHSA-7w22-h4w7-8j5j","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00018.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39917","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}