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CVE-2020-11048

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-11048 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability affecting FreeRDP versions prior to 2.0.0, including various Canonical and Debian Linux distributions. This flaw has a low severity CVSS score of 2.2, as it only allows an authenticated attacker to abort a session, with no data extraction possible and requiring high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability. The issue has been patched in FreeRDP version 2.0.0.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.0.0, < 2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freerdp:freerdp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
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:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

2.2LOW

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
0.7
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0185 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 95 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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-2020-11048Low

freerdp: out-of-bounds read could result in aborting the session

Apr 9, 2020

References

github.com / FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/9301bfe730c66180263248b74353daa99f5a969b
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/6007
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-hv8w-f2hx-5gcv
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00054.html
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
usn.ubuntu.com / 4382-1
Third Party Advisory