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CVE-2026-22858
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-01-14T18:16:43.520 · Last modified 2026-06-30T03:17:29.147

Summary

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.20.1, global-buffer-overflow was observed in FreeRDP's Base64 decoding path. The root cause appears to be implementation-defined char signedness: on Arm/AArch64 builds, plain char is treated as unsigned, so the guard c <= 0 can be optimized into a simple c != 0 check. As a result, non-ASCII bytes (e.g., 0x80-0xFF) may bypass the intended range restriction and be used as an index into a global lookup table, causing out-of-bounds access. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.20.1.

Affected products

freerdp — freerdp

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References

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