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CVE-2017-2836

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists within the reading of proprietary server certificates in FreeRDP 2.0.0-beta1+android11. A specially crafted challenge packet can cause the program termination leading to a denial of service condition. An attacker can compromise the server or use man in the middle to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• FreeRDP: 2.0.0-beta1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99942
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3923
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0338
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99942
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3923
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0338

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