Upstream information

CVE-2025-5024 at MITRE

Description

A flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop. Once gnome-remote-desktop listens for RDP connections, an unauthenticated attacker can exhaust system resources and repeatedly crash the process. There may be a resource leak after many attacks, which will also result in gnome-remote-desktop no longer being able to open files even after it is restarted via systemd.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Pending

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  CNA (Red Hat) SUSE
Base Score 7.4 6.1
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low High
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction Required Required
Scope Changed Changed
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
CVSS v4 Scores
  SUSE
Base Score 6.9
Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Attack Requirements Present
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Active
Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None
Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None
Vulnerable System Availability Impact High
Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None
Subsequent System Integrity Impact None
Subsequent System Availability Impact High
CVSSv4 Version 4.0
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1244053 [NEW]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 8
  • gnome-remote-desktop >= 0.1.8-4.el8_10
Patchnames:
RHSA-2025:10742
SUSE Liberty Linux 9
  • gnome-remote-desktop >= 40.0-11.el9_6
Patchnames:
RHSA-2025:10631


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 gnome-remote-desktop Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 gnome-remote-desktop Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 gnome-remote-desktop Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7 gnome-remote-desktop Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 gnome-remote-desktop Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 gnome-remote-desktop Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 gnome-remote-desktop Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 gnome-remote-desktop Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 gnome-remote-desktop Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16.0 gnome-remote-desktop Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP6 gnome-remote-desktop Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP7 gnome-remote-desktop Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.6 gnome-remote-desktop Affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed May 21 10:00:23 2025
CVE page last modified: Mon Sep 1 19:26:00 2025