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Gnome remote desktop: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (CVE-2025-5024)

0
High
Published: 07/08/2025 (07/08/2025, 13:33:40 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

GNOME Remote Desktop is a remote desktop and screen sharing service for the GNOME desktop environment. Security Fix(es): * gnome-remote-desktop: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption due to Malformed RDP PDUs (CVE-2025-5024) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

CVSS v3.1

Score 7.4high

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected software

redhat/gnome-remote-desktop
pkg:rpm/redhat/gnome-remote-desktop
Affected versions
=0.1.8-4.el8_6

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AI-Powered Analysis

Machine-generated threat intelligence

AILast updated: 06/28/2026, 22:34:15 UTC

Technical Analysis

CVE-2025-5024 is an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in gnome-remote-desktop caused by malformed RDP PDUs. This can lead to excessive resource usage, potentially degrading service availability. Red Hat Product Security rated this issue as moderate severity and released updated gnome-remote-desktop packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 variants including Extended Update Support, Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Telecommunications Update Service. The advisory references Red Hat Bugzilla 2367717 and provides package updates to remediate the issue.

Potential Impact

The vulnerability allows an attacker to cause uncontrolled resource consumption in the gnome-remote-desktop service by sending malformed RDP PDUs. This could degrade or disrupt the remote desktop service availability on affected systems. There is no indication of known exploits in the wild at this time.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has released updated gnome-remote-desktop packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 variants that fix this vulnerability. Users should apply these official updates as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:11405 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Patch status is confirmed with official fixes available. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.

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Technical Details

Gcve Source
db.gcve.eu
Csaf Category
csaf_security_advisory
Csaf Version
2.0
Publisher
Red Hat Product Security
Advisory Id
RHSA-2025:11405
Cve Count
1

Threat ID: 6a419cb927e9c79719abe362

Added to database: 06/28/2026, 22:14:17 UTC

Last enriched: 06/28/2026, 22:34:15 UTC

Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:51 UTC

Views: 69

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