CVE-2026-22858 — Out-of-bounds Read in Freerdp
Severity
5.6MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 74.59%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
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