Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-32041

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 22 April 2024

Published
22 April 2024
Modified
04 February 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0038 60.1th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-32041 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked in the top 39.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. FreeRDP based clients that use a version of FreeRDP prior to 3.5.0 or 2.11.6 are vulnerable to out-of-bounds read. Versions 3.5.0 and 2.11.6 patch the issue. As a workaround, deactivate…

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`/gfx` (on by default, set `/bpp` or `/rfx` options instead.

CWE(s)
CWE-125

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
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Why these techniques?

Out-of-bounds read vulnerability in FreeRDP clients enables remote exploitation by a malicious RDP server to crash the client application when /gfx is enabled, facilitating endpoint denial of service via application exploitation.

Affected Assets

freerdp
freerdp
≤ 2.11.6 · 3.0.0 — 3.5.0
fedoraproject
fedora
38, 39, 40

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References