Severity
5.6MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 74.59%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJan 14
Latest updateMar 18

Description

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

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Packages3 packages

NVDfreerdp/freerdp< 3.20.1
debiandebian/freerdp2< freerdp3 3.20.2+dfsg-1 (forky)
debiandebian/freerdp3< freerdp3 3.20.2+dfsg-1 (forky)

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
OSV
CVE-2026-22858: FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol2026-01-14

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
FreeRDP vulnerabilities2026-03-18
Red Hat
freerdp: FreeRDP global-buffer-overflow2026-01-14
Debian
CVE-2026-22858: freerdp2 - FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.20.1...2026

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2026-22858 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz