CVE-2026-73108
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
7.5
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
0.8%
53.6th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-770
Published 2026-08-26 · modified 2026-09-23
Description
RustDesk versions before 1.4.7 contain an uncontrolled speculative memory allocation vulnerability in BytesCodec. Before authentication, the decoder trusts the payload length encoded in a four-byte frame header and reserves that amount before receiving the payload. A crafted header can request up to 1,073,741,823 bytes of capacity, allowing unauthenticated attackers to use concurrent TCP connections to cause memory exhaustion and denial of service. The fix caps header-triggered speculative preallocation at 256 KiB.
References
- https://github.com/rustdesk/hbb_common/commit/547da54b4ee58eed47163fbd47edb4639e3d88de
- https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/commit/518296f2570d107ad416f29ade5fcce3177f4115
- https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/releases/tag/1.4.7
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rustdesk-uncontrolled-memory-allocation-dos-via-bytescodec