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CVE-2026-56297 json

FreeRDP - Use-After-Free via Race Condition in DRDYNVC Channel Callback

published 4mo ago modified 17d ago also EUVD-2026-42255

cvss
7.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FreeRDP before 3.22.0 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in dvcman_channel_close and dvcman_call_on_receive due to improper synchronization of channel_callback access. A malicious RDP server can trigger a race condition by sending DYNVC_DATA and DYNVC_CLOSE messages concurrently, causing heap-use-after-free in the drdynvc client thread and potentially enabling remote code execution or denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • FreeRDP FreeRDP 3.22.0
  • freerdp3 Debian 14 3.22.0+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-56297

  • freerdp3 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 3.30.0+dfsg-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-56297

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

  • freerdp SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP7, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7 3.10.3-150700.3.17.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:3562-1

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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-2026-56297 updated cvss 5.6

FreeRDP: FreeRDP: Remote code execution or denial of service via use-after-free race condition

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freerdp, freerdp-libs, freerdp-plugins
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 freerdp, libwinpr, freerdp-libs, freerdp-plugins
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 freerdp, libwinpr, freerdp-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 freerdp, libwinpr, freerdp-libs
    not affected: inline mitigations already exist
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 freerdp
    not affected: component 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
4mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-3mv2-5q57-2v8h referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CNA 4.0 8.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/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
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • FreeRDP FreeRDP

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Sources

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