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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96541
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539385
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/issues/356
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/issues/356
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5 was published on 2026-09-23 via NVD.
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