CVE•Published 2026-08-02•Modified 2026-08-31•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-68579

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1
9.6
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
19
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 81% of all CVEs
Description

FreeRDP before 3.30.0 (<= 3.29.0) contains a heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows clipboard client's CliprdrStream_Read function (client/Windows/wf_cliprdr.c). When an OLE paste consumer (e.g. explorer.exe) calls IStream::Read with a fixed-size buffer of cb bytes, CliprdrStream_Read requests file contents from the RDP server and then copies the response into the caller's buffer using the server-supplied length (req_fsize) instead of cb. A malicious or compromised RDP server can return an oversized CB_FILECONTENTS_RESPONSE, causing an out-of-bounds write of attacker-controlled data into the paste consumer's heap buffer when a user pastes server-offered clipboard file contents.

Timeline
Published 2026-08-02
Modified 2026-08-31

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Known PoCs on GitHub

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