CVE-2026-18358

HIGH

GNOME Remote Desktop System-Mode RDP - Unauthenticated Denial of Service

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. When the daemon is running in system mode with RDP enabled, the incoming connection handler bypasses the connection throttler, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to open many parallel pre-authentication connections to the RDP listener. This can accumulate accepted sockets and pending routing-token operations until timeout, exhausting resources and preventing legitimate users from establishing RDP sessions. This issue does not affect the upstream version.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vdb Entry, X_Refsource_Redhat vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18358
Issue Tracking, X_Refsource_Redhat issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
RHBZ#2462876
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2462876

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 35.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (4)
GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Published Jul 31, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 31, 2026