Directory Traversal Affecting freerdp package, versions <2:2.4.1-5.el9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-FREERDP-5584409
  • published18 Nov 2022
  • disclosed16 Nov 2022

Introduced: 16 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-39347  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 freerdp to version 2:2.4.1-5.el9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:2326.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freerdp package and not the freerdp package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients. Affected versions of FreeRDP are missing path canonicalization and base path check for drive channel. A malicious server can trick a FreeRDP based client to read files outside the shared directory. This issue has been addressed in version 2.9.0 and all users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should not use the /drive, /drives or +home-drive redirection switch.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1