CVE-2020-9498: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

July 2, 2020 (updated July 21, 2021)

Apache Guacamole mishandles pointers involved in processing data received via RDP static virtual channels. If a user connects to a malicious or compromised RDP server, a series ofspecially-crafted PDUs could result in memory corruption, possibly allowing arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the running guacd process.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9498

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