Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-32659

Critical

Published: 23 April 2024

Published
23 April 2024
Modified
03 November 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 0.0032 55.4th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-32659 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 Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203); ranked in the top 44.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. FreeRDP based clients prior to version 3.5.1 are vulnerable to out-of-bounds read if `((nWidth == 0) and (nHeight == 0))`. Version 3.5.1 contains a patch for the issue. No known…

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workarounds are available.

CWE(s)
CWE-125

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
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Why these techniques?

Out-of-bounds read vulnerability in FreeRDP RDP client enables exploitation for client execution (T1203) when connecting to a malicious RDP server sending crafted parameters (nWidth=0 and nHeight=0).

Affected Assets

freerdp
freerdp
≤ 2.11.7 · 3.0.0 — 3.5.1
fedoraproject
fedora
38, 39, 40

Mitigating Controls

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

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