HIGH 7.5 NVD

CVE-2026-96541

A denial-of-service flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop. An unauthenticated remote attacker can open RDP connections without completing the handshake and ret

A denial-of-service flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop. An unauthenticated remote attacker can open RDP connections without completing the handshake and retain the connection-throttling slots indefinitely because no pre-authentication handshake deadline is enforced. By exhausting the global connection limit, an attacker can prevent new RDP clients from connecting until a holding socket is closed.

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Published: 2026-09-23 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-09-23
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5 was published on 2026-09-23 via NVD.
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