Description
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients. Affected versions of FreeRDP are missing path canonicalization and base path check for `drive` channel. A malicious server can trick a FreeRDP based client to read files outside the shared directory. This issue has been addressed in version 2.9.0 and all users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should not use the `/drive`, `/drives` or `+home-drive` redirection switch.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/027424c2c6c0991cb9c22f9511478229c9b17e5d
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-c5xq-8v35-pffg
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UDOTAOJBCZKREZJPT6VZ25GESI5T6RBG/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YGQN3OWQNHSMWKOF4D35PF5ASKNLC74B/
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00010.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-16
Scores
CVSS v3
2.6
EPSS
0.0028
EPSS Percentile
51.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-22
Status
published
Products (3)
fedoraproject/fedora
36
fedoraproject/fedora
37
freerdp/freerdp
< 2.9.0
Published
Nov 16, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026