Vulnerabilities / CVE-2026-22857

critical

CVE-2026-22857

freerdp: FreeRDP heap-use-after-free

Published Modified CWE 416
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.20.1, a heap use-after-free occurs in irp_thread_func because the IRP is freed by irp->Complete() and then accessed again on the error path. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.20.1.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.23freerdp3.22.0-r0
debian 11freerdp2no fix listed
debian 12freerdp2no fix listed
debian 13freerdp33.15.0+dfsg-2.1+deb13u1
debian 14freerdp33.20.2+dfsg-1
echofreerdp2, freerdp33.15.0+dfsg-2.1+deb13u1
rapidfort alma 10freerdp, freerdp-devel, freerdp-libs and 3 moreno fix listed
rapidfort alpine 3.20freerdp3.20.2-r0
rapidfort alpine 3.21freerdp3.20.2-r0
rapidfort alpine 3.22freerdp3.20.2-r0
rapidfort debian 12freerdp2, freerdp30:3.15.0+dfsg-2.1+deb13u1, 0:3.20.2+dfsg-1
rapidfort debian 13freerdp2, freerdp30:3.15.0+dfsg-2.1+deb13u1, 0:3.20.2+dfsg-1
Show all 52 entries from 21 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.23freerdp3.22.0-r0
debian 11freerdp2no fix listed
debian 12freerdp2no fix listed
debian 13freerdp33.15.0+dfsg-2.1+deb13u1
debian 14freerdp33.20.2+dfsg-1
echofreerdp2no fix listed
echofreerdp33.15.0+dfsg-2.1+deb13u1
rapidfort alma 10freerdpno fix listed
rapidfort alma 10freerdp-develno fix listed
rapidfort alma 10freerdp-libsno fix listed
rapidfort alma 10freerdp-serverno fix listed
rapidfort alma 10libwinprno fix listed
rapidfort alma 10libwinpr-develno fix listed
rapidfort alpine 3.20freerdp3.20.2-r0
rapidfort alpine 3.21freerdp3.20.2-r0
rapidfort alpine 3.22freerdp3.20.2-r0
rapidfort debian 12freerdp2no fix listed
rapidfort debian 12freerdp30:3.15.0+dfsg-2.1+deb13u1, 0:3.20.2+dfsg-1
rapidfort debian 13freerdp2no fix listed
rapidfort debian 13freerdp30:3.15.0+dfsg-2.1+deb13u1, 0:3.20.2+dfsg-1
rapidfort fedora 43freerdp2:3.20.2-1.fc43
rapidfort fedora 43freerdp-devel2:3.20.2-1.fc43
rapidfort fedora 43freerdp-libs2:3.20.2-1.fc43
rapidfort fedora 43freerdp-server2:3.20.2-1.fc43
rapidfort fedora 43libwinpr2:3.20.2-1.fc43
rapidfort fedora 43libwinpr-devel2:3.20.2-1.fc43
rapidfort Oracle Linux 10freerdpno fix listed
rapidfort Oracle Linux 10freerdp-develno fix listed
rapidfort Oracle Linux 10freerdp-libsno fix listed
rapidfort Oracle Linux 10freerdp-serverno fix listed
rapidfort Oracle Linux 10libwinprno fix listed
rapidfort Oracle Linux 10libwinpr-develno fix listed
rapidfort Red Hat 10freerdpno fix listed
rapidfort Red Hat 10freerdp-develno fix listed
rapidfort Red Hat 10freerdp-libsno fix listed
rapidfort Red Hat 10freerdp-serverno fix listed
rapidfort Red Hat 10libwinprno fix listed
rapidfort Red Hat 10libwinpr-develno fix listed
rapidfort rocky 10freerdpno fix listed
rapidfort rocky 10freerdp-develno fix listed
rapidfort rocky 10freerdp-libsno fix listed
rapidfort rocky 10freerdp-serverno fix listed
rapidfort rocky 10libwinprno fix listed
rapidfort rocky 10libwinpr-develno fix listed
Red Hatfreerdpno fix listed
Red Hatfreerdp-develno fix listed
Red Hatfreerdp-libsno fix listed
Red Hatfreerdp-pluginsno fix listed
ubuntu 24.04freerdp33.5.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu1.4
ubuntu 25.10freerdp33.16.0+dfsg-2ubuntu0.3
ubuntu 26.04freerdp33.20.2+dfsg-1
ubuntu 26.10freerdp33.20.2+dfsg-1

References

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