Access Restriction Bypass Affecting freerdp/freerdp package, versions [,2.7.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREERDPFREERDP-2804194
  • published27 Apr 2022
  • disclosed27 Apr 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Apr 2022

CVE-2022-24882  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freerdp/freerdp to version 2.7.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass due to an improper authentication in NTLM which does not properly abort on an empty password. Note: FreeRDP based RDP Server implementations, RDP clients are not affected.

NOTE: This vulnerability has also been identified as: CVE-2022-24881

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1