CVE-2026-121404
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CVE-2026-121404 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 6.5/10 on the CVSS scale. FreeRDP before 3.32.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the shadow server that allows authenticated RDP clients to spin server threads by sending zero-length drdynvc DATA PDUs. Attackers can send empty DATA messages on opened audin or rdpgfx channels, so that FreeRDP_WTSVirtualChannelRead never consumes them, consuming full CPU cores until disconnect..
Description
FreeRDP before 3.32.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the shadow server that allows authenticated RDP clients to spin server threads by sending zero-length drdynvc DATA PDUs. Attackers can send empty DATA messages on opened audin or rdpgfx channels, so that FreeRDP_WTSVirtualChannelRead never consumes them, consuming full CPU cores until disconnect.
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Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Freerdp | Freerdp | < 3.32.2 |
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