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01 Record

CVE-2020-4044

Local users can perform a buffer overflow attack against the xrdp-sesman service and then impersonate it

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: GitHub_M
CNA base score7.5 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
neutrinolabsxrdp< 0.9.13.1—

06 References

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+esm2
    Available 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+esm2
    Available 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~esm1
    Available 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.

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