CVE-2025-5024

Publication date 22 May 2025

Last updated 5 February 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gnome-remote-desktop	26.04 LTS resolute	Vulnerable
	25.10 questing	Ignored end of life, was needed
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2026-01-05]
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
gnome-remote-desktop	Upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/merge_requests/321 Upstream: d3d44b1 Upstream: c87e8e3 Upstream: 45a0466 Upstream: 2125730 Upstream: b16b81b Upstream: d26d49a Upstream: 97c7d6f Upstream: 6fdaa79 Upstream: 959cd39 Upstream: 503dc30 Upstream: 555f2be Upstream: b14851d Upstream: 23b0761

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.4 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.4 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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