Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting freerdp/freerdp package, versions [,3.31.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREERDPFREERDP-21191684
  • published18 Oct 2026
  • disclosed3 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-85089  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (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 of Uninitialized Resource in the handling of reserved padding fields in session information PDUs due to the use of Stream_Seek instead of Stream_Zero. An attacker can obtain sensitive information from uninitialized heap memory, potentially including cleartext credentials from prior sessions, by connecting as a downstream client and receiving these PDUs.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1