CVE-2026-44422

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44422
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-44422.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-44422
Aliases
  • GHSA-j9q5-7g8m-jc9v
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-05-29T19:41:46.829Z
Modified
2026-07-28T03:46:10.804284523Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
FreeRDP RDPEAR NDR ref-id aliasing causes client-side UAF/double-free and type confusion
Details

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.26.0, FreeRDP's RDPEAR NDR parser accepts one non-null NDR pointer ref-id for multiple logical pointer fields without tracking the pointed object's expected NDR type or ownership. When the same ref-id is reused across two pointer fields, the parser assigns the same heap object to both output fields. The generic destructor later walks each field independently and destroys/frees both pointers. This causes a malicious-server-triggerable heap use-after-free / double-free in the FreeRDP client's RDPEAR authentication-redirection path. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.26.0.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/44xxx/CVE-2026-44422.json",
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-415",
        "CWE-416"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/freerdp/freerdp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/freerdp/freerdp
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Database specific
{
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "CPE_RANGE"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:freerdp:freerdp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.26.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.0-beta1
1.0-beta2
1.0-beta4
1.0-beta5
1.0.0
1.0.1
1.1.0-beta+2013071101
1.1.0-beta1
1.1.0-beta1+android2
1.1.0-beta1+android3
1.1.0-beta1+android4
1.1.0-beta1+android5
1.1.0-beta1+ios1
1.1.0-beta1+ios2
1.1.0-beta1+ios3
1.1.0-beta1+ios4
1.2.0-beta1+android7
1.2.0-beta1+android9
2.*
2.0.0
2.0.0-beta1+android10
2.0.0-beta1+android11
2.0.0-rc0
2.0.0-rc1
2.0.0-rc2
2.0.0-rc3
2.0.0-rc4
3.*
3.0.0
3.0.0-beta1
3.0.0-beta2
3.0.0-beta3
3.0.0-beta4
3.0.0-rc0
3.1.0
3.2.0
3.3.0
3.4.0
3.5.0
3.5.1

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-44422.json"