FreeRDP before 3.30.0 contains an out-of-bounds vulnerability in kerberos_DecryptMessage() (winpr/libwinpr/sspi/Kerberos/kerberos.c). The 16-bit EC (extra count) field of a peer-supplied GSS Wrap token (RFC 4121) is used directly in pointer arithmetic to locate the encrypted regions without being bounds-checked, while only RRC and the total buffer length are validated. A malicious peer (server or client) can supply a large EC value (up to 0xFFFF) during CredSSP/NLA authentication, moving the decrypt operation's base pointers past the end of the ~60-byte token buffer. Because the AES-CTS-HMAC enctypes decrypt in place before the HMAC integrity check, this results in an out-of-bounds read and in-place out-of-bounds write, potentially leading to information disclosure, memory corruption, or denial of service.
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| Description | FreeRDP before 3.30.0 contains an out-of-bounds vulnerability in kerberos_DecryptMessage() (winpr/libwinpr/sspi/Kerberos/kerberos.c). The 16-bit EC (extra count) field of a peer-supplied GSS Wrap token (RFC 4121) is used directly in pointer arithmetic to locate the encrypted regions without being bounds-checked, while only RRC and the total buffer length are validated. A malicious peer (server or client) can supply a large EC value (up to 0xFFFF) during CredSSP/NLA authentication, moving the decrypt operation's base pointers past the end of the ~60-byte token buffer. Because the AES-CTS-HMAC enctypes decrypt in place before the HMAC integrity check, this results in an out-of-bounds read and in-place out-of-bounds write, potentially leading to information disclosure, memory corruption, or denial of service. | |
| Title | FreeRDP before 3.30.0 Out-of-Bounds Read via Kerberos GSS Wrap-token EC | |
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Freerdp
Freerdp freerdp |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-122 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:freerdp:freerdp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Freerdp
Freerdp freerdp |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-11T12:16:59.899Z
Reserved: 2026-08-10T13:53:42.482Z
Link: CVE-2026-72745
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-11T13:19:05.370
Modified: 2026-08-11T13:19:05.370
Link: CVE-2026-72745
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