Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting freerdp/freerdp package, versions [,3.20.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.09% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREERDPFREERDP-14947227
  • published16 Jan 2026
  • disclosed14 Jan 2026
  • creditKim Dong Han

Introduced: 14 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-22858  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freerdp/freerdp to version 3.20.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Stack-based Buffer Overflow in the crypto_base64_decode function due to improper handling of character signedness on Arm/AArch64 architectures. An attacker can trigger out-of-bounds memory access by supplying non-ASCII input that is used as an index into a global lookup table.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1