Use After Free Affecting freerdp/freerdp package, versions [,3.31.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREERDPFREERDP-21191131
  • published18 Oct 2026
  • disclosed15 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-91957  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freerdp/freerdp to version 3.31.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the smartcard process when worker thread creation fails after device registration. An attacker can cause a crash or potentially execute arbitrary code by triggering thread creation failure during channel setup, which leads to device pointer deallocation while a reference is still retained.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1