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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2026-85090 json

FreeRDP before 3.31.0 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via AVC444

published 2026-09-03 2 mo ago modified 2026-09-09 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-70300

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 20%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FreeRDP before 3.31.0 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the general_ChromaV1ToYUV444 function during AVC444 chroma plane reconstruction. A malicious RDP server can craft a RFX_AVC444_BITMAP_STREAM with specific frame geometry to trigger an out-of-bounds memory read past the allocated luma plane.

Patch / fix

  • FreeRDP FreeRDP 3.31.0
  • freerdp3 Debian 14 3.31.0+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-85090

  • freerdp3 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 3.31.0+dfsg-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
  • freerdp3 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 3.31.0+dfsg-0ubuntu0.26.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-85090

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-85090 updated cvss 5.4

FreeRDP: FreeRDP: Heap Out-of-Bounds Read in AVC444 Chroma Combine

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 freerdp
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freerdp, freerdp-libs, freerdp-plugins Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 freerdp, libwinpr, freerdp-libs, freerdp-plugins Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 freerdp, libwinpr, freerdp-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 freerdp, libwinpr, freerdp-libs
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-57h7-vw2f-2f9x referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CNA 4.0 5.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • FreeRDP FreeRDP

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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