CVE-2017-2837

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% 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-190

Description

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists within the handling of security data 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-2017-0339
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99942
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3923
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0339

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