Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Affecting neutrinolabs/xrdp package, versions [,0.9.23)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NEUTRINOLABSXRDP-5876647
  • published31 Aug 2023
  • disclosed30 Aug 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-40184  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-755  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade neutrinolabs/xrdp to version 0.9.23 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions due to the auth_start_session function. An attacker can bypass OS-level session restrictions by exploiting improper handling of session establishment errors. This is only exploitable if users (administrators) use restrictions by PAM.

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