CVE-2025-5024

Publication date 22 May 2025

Last updated 24 November 2025

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gnome-remote-desktop	25.10 questing	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	25.04 plucky	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable, fix deferred

Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2025-11-24, the upstream merge request is still being reviewed and commented on.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
gnome-remote-desktop	Upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/merge_requests/321

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.4 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H