CVE-2022-23613

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    CVE-2022-23613

    Published: 7 Feb 2022Last Modified: 21 Oct 2026

    Summary: Privilege escalation on xrdp

    Details: 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.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23613.json, https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/security/advisories/GHSA-8h98-h426-xf32, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K5ONRGARKHGFU2CIEQ7E6M6VJZEM5XWW/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3XGFJNQMNXHBD3J7CBM4YURYEDXROWZ/, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23613, https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/commit/4def30ab8ea445cdc06832a44c3ec40a506a0ffa

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 58088324956d94fd2eb5e7694a318cccec6990f1
    Fixed -7e6194504e2b3c9708f28b30a890b498c22b3091

    Affected versions

    0.9.17
    0.9.18

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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