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CVE-2020-11040Out-of-bounds Read in FreeRDP
- 2.2LowCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In FreeRDP less than or equal to 2.0.0, there is an out-of-bound data read from memory in clear_decompress_subcode_rlex, visualized on screen as color. This has been patched in 2.1.0.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low2.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low2.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.2.
Affected products
References
References3
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-x4wq-m7c9-rjgr (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1090 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20231007 [SECURITY] [DLA 3606-1] freerdp2 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-3424 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-11040)Record last updated .