CVE-2026-22853

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.8% (56th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Elevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-2674 (ENISA EUVD)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.8%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.20.1, RDPEAR’s NDR array reader does not perform bounds checking on the on‑wire element count and can write past the heap buffer allocated from hints, causing a heap buffer overflow in ndr_read_uint8Array. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.20.1.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.8%
EPSS %ILE
56th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

January 14, 2026

Last Modified

August 19, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Oct 31, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Patch available. Sources: github, github_release.
GitHub release Patch Available

3.20.1

Patch available: FreeRDP/FreeRDP 3.20.1

https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/releases/tag/3.20.1
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)🟡 PoC Available

Heap-buffer-overflow in ndr_read_uint8Array · Advisory · FreeRDP/FreeRDP · GitHub

https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-47v9-p4gp-w5ch
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",

https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-22853.json
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

2429647 – (CVE-2026-22853) CVE-2026-22853 freerdp: FreeRDP heap-buffer-overflow

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429647
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-22853 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-22853
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:4121
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3068
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19033

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-22853(3)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(4)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuwinpr3-utils (3.16.0+dfsg-2ubuntu0.3) @ questing2026-11-11ubuntu
redhatfreerdp-2:3.10.3-12.el10_2.22026-05-19redhat
redhatfreerdp-2:3.10.3-3.el10_0.22026-03-09redhat
redhatfreerdp-2:3.10.3-5.el10_1.22026-02-23redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freerdp—
  • every version up to 3.22.0-r0: fixed in 3.22.0-r0
—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freerdp22.10.0+dfsg1-1 ... 2.9.0+dfsg1-1~bpo11+1 (32 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freerdp22.10.0+dfsg1-1 ... 2.11.7+dfsg1-6~deb12u1 (13 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freerdp33.15.0+dfsg-2.1
  • every version up to 3.15.0+dfsg-2.1+deb13u1: fixed in 3.15.0+dfsg-2.1+deb13u1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freerdp33.15.0+dfsg-2.1 ... 3.20.0+dfsg-1 (13 versions)
  • every version up to 3.20.2+dfsg-1: fixed in 3.20.2+dfsg-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 58× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 286 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 186 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-13 16:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  2. 2026-11-13 11:59 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-13 11:59 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  5. 2026-11-12 10:33 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  6. 2026-11-12 10:33 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-11 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  8. 2026-11-11 09:06 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  9. 2026-11-11 09:06 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-11-10 16:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  11. 2026-11-10 07:40 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  12. 2026-11-10 07:40 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-11-09 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  14. 2026-11-09 06:12 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  15. 2026-11-09 06:12 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-11-08 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  17. 2026-11-08 04:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-11-08 04:46 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-11-07 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  20. 2026-11-07 03:19 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  21. 2026-11-07 03:19 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-11-06 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  23. 2026-11-06 02:55 UTCOSV refresh
  24. 2026-11-06 01:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  25. 2026-11-06 01:53 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-11-05 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  2. 2026-11-05 00:27 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-05 00:27 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-04 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  5. 2026-11-03 23:00 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  6. 2026-11-03 23:00 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-03 16:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  8. 2026-11-02 21:34 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  9. 2026-11-02 21:34 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-11-02 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  11. 2026-11-01 20:07 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  12. 2026-11-01 20:07 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-31 18:40 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
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  15. 2026-10-31 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  16. 2026-10-30 17:13 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  17. 2026-10-30 17:13 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-30 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
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  20. 2026-10-29 15:47 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  21. 2026-10-29 15:47 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-28 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  23. 2026-10-28 14:19 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  24. 2026-10-28 14:19 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  26. 2026-10-27 12:33 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  27. 2026-10-27 12:33 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  29. 2026-10-26 11:07 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  30. 2026-10-26 11:07 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  32. 2026-10-25 14:42 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
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  34. 2026-10-25 09:41 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-24 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  36. 2026-10-24 08:14 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  37. 2026-10-24 08:14 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  39. 2026-10-23 06:47 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  40. 2026-10-23 06:47 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  42. 2026-10-22 05:21 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  43. 2026-10-22 05:21 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-10-21 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  45. 2026-10-21 03:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  46. 2026-10-21 03:53 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-20 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  48. 2026-10-20 02:26 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  49. 2026-10-20 02:26 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-10-19 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  51. 2026-10-19 00:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  52. 2026-10-19 00:58 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-18 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  54. 2026-10-18 03:55 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
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  57. 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  58. 2026-10-16 22:04 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  59. 2026-10-16 22:04 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-16 16:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  61. 2026-10-15 18:34 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
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  63. 2026-10-15 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
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  67. 2026-10-13 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
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  70. 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
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  72. 2026-10-12 09:17 UTCVendor advisory
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-22853?
CVE-2026-22853 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on January 14, 2026. FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.20.1, RDPEAR’s NDR array reader does not perform bounds checking on the on‑wire element count and can write past the heap buffer allocated from hints, causing a heap buffer overflow in ndr_read_uint8Array. This…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-22853 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-22853 was published on January 14, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of August 19, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-22853 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-22853 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (56th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-22853?
CVE-2026-22853 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-22853?
A fix for CVE-2026-22853 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-22853 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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