CVE-2023-40184 — Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Xrdp
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
CNA2.6OSV9.8
EPSS
0.0%
top 85.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 30
Latest updateNov 8
Description
xrdp is an open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server. In versions prior to 0.9.23 improper handling of session establishment errors allows bypassing OS-level session restrictions. The `auth_start_session` function can return non-zero (1) value on, e.g., PAM error which may result in in session restrictions such as max concurrent sessions per user by PAM (ex ./etc/security/limits.conf) to be bypassed. Users (administrators) don't use restrictions by PAM are not affected. This issue has bee…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6