Description
A flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. When the daemon is running in system mode with RDP enabled, the incoming connection handler bypasses the connection throttler, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to open many parallel pre-authentication connections to the RDP listener. This can accumulate accepted sockets and pending routing-token operations until timeout, exhausting resources and preventing legitimate users from establishing RDP sessions. This issue does not affect the upstream version.
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Vendor Workaround
If system-mode RDP is not required, disable it. If it must remain enabled, restrict the RDP listener (default port 3389) to trusted hosts or management networks using host-based firewall rules.
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Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:45:00 +0000
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| Description | A flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. When the daemon is running in system mode with RDP enabled, the incoming connection handler bypasses the connection throttler, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to open many parallel pre-authentication connections to the RDP listener. This can accumulate accepted sockets and pending routing-token operations until timeout, exhausting resources and preventing legitimate users from establishing RDP sessions. This issue does not affect the upstream version. | |
| Title | Gnome-remote-desktop: gnome-remote-desktop system-mode rdp server missing connection throttling allows unauthenticated denial of service | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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| Vendors & Products |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-31T12:53:48.774Z
Reserved: 2026-07-30T08:33:03.012Z
Link: CVE-2026-18358
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