# CVE-2020-13398: An issue was discovered in FreeRDP before 2.1.1.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2020-05-22 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in FreeRDP before 2.1.1. An out-of-bounds (OOB) write vulnerability has been detected in crypto_rsa_common in libfreerdp/crypto/crypto.c.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/compare/2.1.0...2.1.1
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/8fb6336a4072abcee8ce5bd6ae91104628c7bb69
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/8305349a943c68b1bc8c158f431dc607655aadea
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4379-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4382-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00080.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00054.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00008.html
- https://github.com/SpiralBL0CK/PoC-crash-CVE-2020-13398-

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