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01 Record

CVE-2017-2838

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists within the handling of challenge packets in FreeRDP 2.0.0-beta1+android11. A specially crafted challenge packet can cause the program termination

MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: talos
CNA base score6.5 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

02 Description

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists within the handling of challenge packets in FreeRDP 2.0.0-beta1+android11. A specially crafted challenge packet can cause the program termination

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
1.51% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 74.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2018-04-24 19:00Z8 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-09-17 03:13Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2016-12-01
Assigning CNA
talos
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Medium (CVSS 6.5)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-190Integer Overflow or WraparoundBase
Data version
5.1
Document digest
df27b2bcd0c40aab054b1ac4565c33978b25f4f972a802b9cb5d70faa8f594c7

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
FreeRDPFreeRDP2.0.0-beta1+android11 - Windows, OSX, Linux—

06 References

07 Fixed in

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

  • freerdp
    Fixed in 1.0.2-2ubuntu1.1

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

  • freerdp
    Fixed in 1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-5ubuntu1.2

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.