CVE-2022-23613

Privilege escalation on xrdp

Published Feb 7, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 7.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
xrdp is an open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server. In affected versions an integer underflow leading to a heap overflow in the sesman server allows any unauthenticated attacker which is able to locally access a sesman server to execute code as root. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.9.18.1 and above. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-28582 xrdp is an open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server. In affected versions an integer underflow leading to a heap overflow in the sesman server allows any unauthenticated attacker which is able to locally access a sesman server to execute code as root. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.9.18.1 and above. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6474-1 xrdp vulnerabilities
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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Apr 23, 2025, 7:07 PM
Reserved
Jan 19, 2022, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 7, 2022, 10:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:30 AM