CVE-2025-5024

May 23, 2025, 3:55 p.m.

7.4
High

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Gnome
  • Gnome-remote-desktop
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a gnome gnome-remote-desktop / / / / / / / /

References

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

Tags

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-400
2025-05-22
CVE-2025-5024

CVSS Score

7.4 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: HIGH

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

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Timeline

Published: May 22, 2025, 3:16 p.m.
Last Modified: May 23, 2025, 3:55 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

secalert@redhat.com

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