Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-4478

Medium

Published: 16 May 2025

Published
16 May 2025
Modified
21 January 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0045 64.2th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-4478 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Freerdp Freerdp. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 35.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A flaw was found in the FreeRDP used by Anaconda's remote install feature, where a crafted RDP packet could trigger a segmentation fault. This issue causes the service to crash and remain defunct, resulting in a denial of service. It…

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occurs pre-boot and is likely due to a NULL pointer dereference. Rebooting is required to recover the system.

CWE(s)
CWE-476

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

freerdp
freerdp
3.0.0 — 3.16.0
redhat
enterprise linux
10.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References