Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts Affecting freerdp3 package, versions <3.32.0+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FREERDP3-20936941
  • published14 Oct 2026
  • disclosed13 Oct 2026

Introduced: 13 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-109949  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-307  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable freerdp3 to version 3.32.0+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freerdp3 package and not the freerdp3 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 contains an improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts in its virtual smartcard GIDS implementation, which stores the PIN retry counter per-handle. A malicious RDP server can exhaust the counter with VERIFY APDUs, then request a new SCardConnect to reset attempts, enabling unbounded online brute-forcing of the configured smartcard PIN.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1