CVE-2026-33145

Published Apr 17, 2026

Last updated 11 days ago

CVSS medium 6.3

Overview

Description
xrdp is an open source RDP server. Versions through 0.10.5 allow an authenticated remote user to execute arbitrary commands on the server due to unsafe handling of the AlternateShell parameter in xrdp-sesman. When the AllowAlternateShell setting is enabled (which is the default when not explicitly configured), xrdp accepts a client-supplied AlternateShell value and executes it via /bin/sh -c during session initialization. This results in shell-interpreted execution of unsanitized, user-controlled input. This behavior effectively provides a scriptable remote command execution primitive over RDP within the security context of the authenticated user, occurring prior to normal window manager startup. This can bypass expected session initialization flows and operational assumptions that restrict execution to interactive desktop environments. This issue has been fixed in version 0.10.6.
Source
security-advisories@github.com
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
xrdp

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
6.3
Impact score
3.4
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

security-advisories@github.com
CWE-78

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations

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References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.