CVE-2017-2836

MEDIUM

FreeRDP - Denial of Service via Crafted Challenge Packet

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists within the reading of proprietary server certificates in FreeRDP 2.0.0-beta1+android11. A specially crafted challenge packet can cause the program termination leading to a denial of service condition. An attacker can compromise the server or use man in the middle to trigger this vulnerability.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99942
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3923

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 39.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-295
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
freerdp/freerdp 2.0.0 beta1
Published Apr 24, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026