Use-after-free in FreeRDP - CVE-2026-25959

 

Use-after-free in FreeRDP - CVE-2026-25959

Published: April 8, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU125354
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-25959
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service and potentially execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability exists due to use-after-free in xf_cliprdr_provide_data_ when processing clipboard format data responses concurrently with cached clipboard data clearing. A remote attacker can send a malicious clipboard data response from a server to cause a denial of service and potentially execute arbitrary code.

The issue is client-side and requires clipboard redirection support to be enabled.


Affected software

FreeRDP
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15
SUSE Package Hub 15
Ubuntu
Fedora
freerdp3 (Ubuntu package)
freerdp
libwinpr3-3
freerdp-sdl
librdtk0-0-debuginfo
freerdp-proxy-plugins-debuginfo
libwinpr3-3-debuginfo
winpr-devel
libfreerdp-server-proxy3-3-debuginfo
libfreerdp-server-proxy3-3
freerdp-proxy-plugins
freerdp-sdl-debuginfo
librdtk0-0
libfreerdp3-3-debuginfo
libfreerdp3-3
freerdp-server
freerdp-devel
libuwac0-0-debuginfo
freerdp-debugsource
libuwac0-0
freerdp-server-debuginfo
freerdp-debuginfo
freerdp-wayland
freerdp-proxy-debuginfo
freerdp-proxy
freerdp-wayland-debuginfo

How to mitigate CVE-2026-25959

Install security update from vendor's website.

FreeRDP - update to 3.23.0
freerdp3 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 3.5.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu1.4, 3.16.0+dfsg-2ubuntu0.3
freerdp - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
libwinpr3-3 - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-sdl - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
librdtk0-0-debuginfo - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-proxy-plugins-debuginfo - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
libwinpr3-3-debuginfo - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
winpr-devel - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
libfreerdp-server-proxy3-3-debuginfo - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
libfreerdp-server-proxy3-3 - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-proxy-plugins - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-sdl-debuginfo - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
librdtk0-0 - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
libfreerdp3-3-debuginfo - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
libfreerdp3-3 - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-server - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-devel - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
libuwac0-0-debuginfo - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-debugsource - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
libuwac0-0 - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-server-debuginfo - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-debuginfo - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-wayland - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-proxy-debuginfo - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-proxy - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp-wayland-debuginfo - update to 3.10.3-150700.3.14.1
freerdp - addressed in versions 3.23.0-1.fc42, 3.23.0-1.fc43, 3.23.0-1.fc44

External References

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