Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 7, 2022· Updated Apr 23, 2025
Privilege escalation on xrdp
CVE-2022-23613
Description
xrdp is an open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server. In affected versions an integer underflow leading to a heap overflow in the sesman server allows any unauthenticated attacker which is able to locally access a sesman server to execute code as root. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.9.18.1 and above. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.
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Affected products
3- Range: >= 0.9.17, < 0.9.18.1
Patches
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References
4- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K5ONRGARKHGFU2CIEQ7E6M6VJZEM5XWW/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3XGFJNQMNXHBD3J7CBM4YURYEDXROWZ/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/commit/4def30ab8ea445cdc06832a44c3ec40a506a0ffamitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/security/advisories/GHSA-8h98-h426-xf32mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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