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CVE-2025-5024: Gnome-remote-desktop: uncontrolled resource consumption due to malformed rdp pdus

7.4 CVSS

Description

A flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop. Once gnome-remote-desktop listens for RDP connections, an unauthenticated attacker can exhaust system resources and repeatedly crash the process. There may be a resource leak after many attacks, which will also result in gnome-remote-desktop no longer being able to open files even after it is restarted via systemd.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-5024

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.4

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem Types

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Vendor: Red Hat

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 10.47% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-14 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5024
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5024
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2367717

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