CVE-2026-109243

FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 Insecure Permissions on Soft-Smartcard Private Key File

State: Published
Severity: 4.1 Medium
Published: Oct 12, 2026
Updated: Oct 13, 2026
Reserved: Oct 12, 2026

Description

FreeRDP from 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 contains an incorrect permission assignment vulnerability that allows local users to read private keys written by crypto_write_pem without owner-only permissions. Attackers on multi-user Unix hosts can enumerate the shared temporary directory during soft-smartcard logon to read the world-readable PKINIT private-key copy.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	4.1 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	4.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FreeRDPFreeRDP	3.0.0 to before 3.32.0Affected 3.32.0Not affected

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-q9p9-j22r-577p)vendor-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 Insecure Permissions on Soft-Smartcard Private Key Filethird-party-advisory

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