# CVE-2025-5024: Gnome-remote-desktop: uncontrolled resource consumption due to malformed rdp pdus

- Severity: CVSS 7.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-05-22 · Updated: 2026-06-30

## Affected

- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported
- gnome-remote-desktop: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

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

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10631
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10635
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10742
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11403
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11404
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11405
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11406
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11407
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11408
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11418
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5024
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2367717
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/merge_requests/321

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