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critical 9.8

CVE-2013-1430 json

An issue was discovered in xrdp before 0.9.1.

published 9y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-1468

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in xrdp before 0.9.1. When successfully logging in using RDP into an xrdp session, the file ~/.vnc/sesman_${username}_passwd is created. Its content is the equivalent of the user's cleartext password, DES encrypted with a known key.

Patch / fix

  • xrdp Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.9.1~2016121126+git5171fa7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1430

  • xrdp Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.6.0-1ubuntu0.1
  • xrdp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.6.1-2ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2013-1430

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

  • xrdp SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 7 +1 more 0.9.0~git.1456906198.f422461-16.9.3
  • xrdp SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP4, SLED 12 SP4 0.9.0~git.1456906198.f422461-21.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:1860-1SUSE-SU-2019:1847-1

  • xrdp openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.9.15-2.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11526-1

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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-2013-1430 updated cvss 7.5

xrdp: Cleartext password shown in file after logging into xrdp session

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    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

Exploit prediction

1.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • n/a xrdp before 0.9.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors

References

Sources

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