MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-109678 (CVSS 7.1)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 13, 2026Risk 23/100

FreeRDP 3.0.0-beta1 before 3.32.0, when built with verbose WinPR assertions and using smartcard emulation, has a reachable assertion: the emulated SCardStatusA passes a NULL reader-name destination to scard_copy_strings. A malicious RDP server can send an SCardStatusA request with fmszReaderNamesIsNULL=1 to abort a connecting client.

Technical details

CVSS

7.1

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:Passive

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