- 3.1LowCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 21% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In FreeRDP before version 2.1.2, there is an out of bounds read in RLEDECOMPRESS. All FreeRDP based clients with sessions with color depth < 32 are affected. This is fixed in version 2.1.2.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 6 months later
· 6 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 | Low3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.1.
Affected products
References
References8
- http://www.freerdp.com/2020/06/22/2_1_2-released (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-7rhj-856w-82p8 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/0a98c450c58ec150e44781c89aa6f8e7e0f571f5 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1090 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-8d5f86e29a (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-a3432485db (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- USN-4481-1 (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-2020-25298 (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-2020-4033)Record last updated .