CVE-2026-45700
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.39%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.26.0, FreeRDP's planar bitmap decoder has an out-of-bounds heap write when decoding RLE planar data. In libfreerdp/codec/planar.c, freerdp_bitmap_decompress_planar() validates the X destination coordinate nXDst against the caller-provided destination stride (nDstStep) even when it is writing into the internal temp buffer pTempData. An attacker can bypass the check with a large nDstStep and a large nXDst, causing planar_decompress_plane_rle() to write past the end of pTempData. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.26.0.
- CVSS 4.0
- 7.7 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 4.39% probability · 91th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- freerdp/freerdp
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-mpxh-8fq3-x8mhExploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36203
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37207
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:38501
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46383
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46384
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46388
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46389
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46393
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47048
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47049
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47201
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45700
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2483470
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-mpxh-8fq3-x8mhExploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-45700.json
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.