CVE-2025-4478

Published: May 16, 2025Modified: Jan 21, 2026

6.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD (Secondary)

Description

A flaw was found in the FreeRDP used by Anaconda's remote install feature, where a crafted RDP packet could trigger a segmentation fault. This issue causes the service to crash and remain defunct, resulting in a denial of service. It occurs pre-boot and is likely due to a NULL pointer dereference. Rebooting is required to recover the system.

Affected (2)

Products: Freerdp: Freerdp · Redhat: Enterprise Linux

1 product

1 product

Enterprise Linux

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Freerdp Freerdp	From 3.0.0 to 3.16.0

Configuration B

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Redhat Enterprise Linux	Version 10.0

Related CWEs

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

References (4)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9307

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Vendor Advisory

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4478

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2365232

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Issue TrackingPermissions Required

https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/pull/11573

Source: secalert@redhat.com

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