MGASA-2021-0016

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    MGASA-2021-0016

    Published: 10 Jan 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-4044

    Summary: Updated xrdp packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Ashley Newson discovered that the XRDP sessions manager was susceptible to denial of service. A local attacker can further take advantage of this flaw to impersonate the XRDP sessions manager and capture any user credentials that are submitted to XRDP, approve or reject arbitrary login credentials or to hijack existing sessions for xorgxrdp sessions (CVE-2020-4044).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0016.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26931, https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4737, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/7FYD6USHZXDI2EAZVGOVFMAE7ILP3SPL/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xrdp

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/xrdp?arch=source&distro=mageia-7

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.9.10-1.1.mga7

    Affected versions

    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
    MGASA-2021-0016 | CVE-DB