CVE-2020-4044
Local users can perform a buffer overflow attack against the xrdp-sesman service and then impersonate it
02 Description
Local users can perform a buffer overflow attack against the xrdp-sesman service and then impersonate it
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
- 2.40% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
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
- 2020-06-30 15:55Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 07:52Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-12-30
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.5)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowVariant
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e99ba745370668f121c742fe3e241599edaaef22bb9b31892a642b8393c2f86f
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/security/advisories/GHSA-j9fv-6fwf-p3g4
- github.comhttps://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/releases/tag/v0.9.13.1
- github.comhttps://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/commit/0c791d073d0eb344ee7aaafd221513dc9226762c
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0999http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00036.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-4737https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4737
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200809 [SECURITY] [DLA 2319-1] xrdp security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00015.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1200http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00037.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- xrdp Fixed in 0.9.12-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- xrdp Fixed in 0.9.12-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- xrdp Fixed in 0.9.12-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- xrdp Fixed in 0.9.12-1ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- xrdp Fixed in 0.6.0-1ubuntu0.1+esm2Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- xrdp Fixed in 0.6.1-2ubuntu0.3+esm2Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- xrdp Fixed in 0.9.5-2ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
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.