CVE-2025-5024 | Gnome-remote-desktop: uncontrolled resource consumption due to malformed rdp pdus

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.

Published: 2025-05-22 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Deferred，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-5024 is rated Moderate Risk (52.9/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.51%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-5024

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-18 0.25% 0.51% +0.25%
2 2026-03-08 0.21% 0.25% +0.04%
3 2026-02-05 — 0.21% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-5024

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.4 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.8 4.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-5024

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-5024

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-5024 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (gnome-remote-desktop), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-5024
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5024
suse medium — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5024/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-5024 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (gnome-remote-desktop), 7 status rows across 7 suites (focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream): needed 4, ignored 2, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-5024

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-5024

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-5024

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