CVE-2026-45700
High
High exploit probability or critical severity with a known exploit.
CVSS base
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
4.4%
90.9th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-787
Published 2026-05-29 · modified 2026-07-29
Description
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.26.0, FreeRDP's planar bitmap decoder has an out-of-bounds heap write when decoding RLE planar data. In libfreerdp/codec/planar.c, freerdp_bitmap_decompress_planar() validates the X destination coordinate nXDst against the caller-provided destination stride (nDstStep) even when it is writing into the internal temp buffer pTempData. An attacker can bypass the check with a large nDstStep and a large nXDst, causing planar_decompress_plane_rle() to write past the end of pTempData. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.26.0.
Affected
References
- exploit https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-mpxh-8fq3-x8mh
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36203
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37207
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:38501
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46383
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46384
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46388
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46389
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46393
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47048
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47049
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47201
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45700
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2483470
- exploit https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-mpxh-8fq3-x8mh
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-45700.json