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Vulnerability · Published Feb 7, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2022-23613Privilege escalation on xrdp

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in xrdp from neutrinolabs. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 42% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 57.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20xrdp0.9.18.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-23613
Alpine:v3.21xrdp0.9.18.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-23613
Alpine:v3.22xrdp0.9.18.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-23613
Alpine:v3.23xrdp0.9.18.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-23613
Alpine:v3.24xrdp0.9.18.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-23613
Debian:12xrdp0.9.17-2.1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23613
Debian:13xrdp0.9.17-2.1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23613
Debian:14xrdp0.9.17-2.1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23613
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSxrdpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-23613
Ubuntu:25.10xrdpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-23613
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSxrdpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-23613
Ubuntu:26.10xrdpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-23613

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
neutrinolabs xrdp >= 0.9.17, < 0.9.18.1

Weakness: CWE-191 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References