CVE-2026-109678

FreeRDP 3.0.0-beta1 before 3.32.0 Reachable Assertion via Emulated SCardStatusA

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Oct 13, 2026
Updated: Oct 13, 2026
Reserved: Oct 12, 2026

Description

FreeRDP 3.0.0-beta1 before 3.32.0, when built with verbose WinPR assertions and using smartcard emulation, has a reachable assertion: the emulated SCardStatusA passes a NULL reader-name destination to scard_copy_strings. A malicious RDP server can send an SCardStatusA request with fmszReaderNamesIsNULL=1 to abort a connecting client.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.1 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-617 Reachable Assertion

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FreeRDPFreeRDP	3.0.0-beta1 to before 3.32.0Affected 3.32.0Not affected

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-996j-34w6-5hgm)vendor-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: FreeRDP 3.0.0-beta1 before 3.32.0 Reachable Assertion via Emulated SCardStatusAthird-party-advisory

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