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CVE-2020-11047

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-11047 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in FreeRDP versions prior to 2.0.0, affecting various Canonical and Debian Linux distributions. A malicious RDP server can exploit this by sending a crafted message, leading to the extraction of up to 8 bytes of client memory. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.9 (Medium), indicating a network attack vector with high complexity, requiring high privileges, and resulting in high confidentiality impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
> 1.1.0, < 2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freerdp:freerdp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
19.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
20.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
3.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0171 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 687 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: freerdp-0:2.1.1-2.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: freerdp-2:2.1.1-1.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: vinagre-0:3.22.0-23.el8
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-11047Moderate

freerdp: out-of-bounds read in autodetect_recv_bandwidth_measure_results function

Apr 9, 2020

References

github.com / FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/f5e73cc7c9cd973b516a618da877c87b80950b65
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/6009
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-9fw6-m2q8-h5pw
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00008.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4379-1
Third Party Advisory