CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-2836

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Apr 24, 2018 | Modified: Jun 03, 2022
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists within the reading of proprietary server certificates in FreeRDP 2.0.0-beta1+android11. A specially crafted challenge packet can cause the program termination leading to a denial of service condition. An attacker can compromise the server or use man in the middle to trigger this vulnerability.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Freerdp Freerdp 2.0.0-beta1 (including) 2.0.0-beta1 (including)
Freerdp Ubuntu devel *
Freerdp Ubuntu trusty *
Freerdp Ubuntu upstream *
Freerdp Ubuntu xenial *
Freerdp Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References