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CVE-2018-8789

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-11-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-126

Description

FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains several Out-Of-Bounds Reads in the NTLM Authentication module that results in a Denial of Service (segfault).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• FreeRDP: through 1.2.0; 2.0.0-rc1, 2.0.0-rc2, 2.0.0-rc3

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106938
• https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/2ee663f39dc8dac3d9988e847db19b2d7e3ac8c6
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00015.html
• https://research.checkpoint.com/reverse-rdp-attack-code-execution-on-rdp-clients/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3845-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3845-2/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106938
• https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/2ee663f39dc8dac3d9988e847db19b2d7e3ac8c6
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00015.html
• https://research.checkpoint.com/reverse-rdp-attack-code-execution-on-rdp-clients/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3845-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3845-2/

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