Guacamole
CVE-2023-30576
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Memory lifecycle management
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 8.1 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, high complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could access freed memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Apache Guacamole 0.9.10 through 1.5.1 may continue to reference a freed RDP audio input buffer. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Use smart pointers or garbage-collected languages. Set pointers to NULL after freeing. Enable memory sanitizers.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Use After Free (CWE-416), which allows attackers to access freed memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application. Apache Guacamole 0.9.10 through 1.5.1 may continue to reference a freed RDP audio input buffer. Depending on timing, this may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the guacd process. Affected products include: Apache Guacamole. Version information: through 1.5.1.
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AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Apache Guacamole 0.9.10 through 1.5.1 may continue to reference a freed RDP audio input buffer. Depending on timing, this may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the guacd process.
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Attack Technique
Use-after-free vulnerabilities occur when a program continues to access memory through a pointer after that memory has been deallocated.
Memory corruption occurs when a program writes data beyond the boundaries of allocated memory regions or accesses memory in unintended ways, violating the integrity of the process's address space.
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Stack-based buffer overflow in the guac_client_plugin_open function in libguac in Guacamole before 0.6.3 allows remote a
SQLite 3.30.1 mishandles certain SELECT statements with a nonexistent VIEW, leading to an application crash. Rated high
Apache Guacamole 1.5.3 and older do not consistently ensure that values received from a VNC server will not result in in
Apache Guacamole 1.5.1 and older may incorrectly calculate the lengths of instruction elements sent during the Guacamole
The terminal emulator of Apache Guacamole 1.5.5 and older does not properly validate console codes received from servers
Apache Guacamole 1.1.0 and older may mishandle pointers involved inprocessing data received via RDP static virtual chann
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the file browser in Guacamole 0.9.8 and 0.9.9, when file transfer is enabled
Apache Guacamole 1.1.0 and older do not properly validate datareceived from RDP servers via static virtual channels. Rat
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