Millions of Brute-Force Attacks Hit Remote Desktop Accounts

A rash of brute-forcing attempts aimed at users of Microsoft’s proprietary Remote Desktop Protocol RDP has come to light, striking millions per week. The attacks are a likely offshoot of cybercriminals looking to take advantage of the unprecedented numbers of employees working from home amid the...

Security guidance for remote desktop adoption

As the volume of remote workers quickly increased over the past two to three months, the IT teams in many companies scrambled to figure out how their infrastructures and technologies would be able to handle the increase in remote connections. Many companies were forced to enhance their capabiliti...

The vulnerability of the RRE decoder VNC client component of the remote desktop management software UltraVNC allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the RRE decoder VNC client component of the remote desktop management software UltraVNC is related to reading data beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code remotely...

The vulnerability of the VNC client of the remote desktop management software UltraVNC allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the VNC client software for remote desktop management, UltraVNC, is related to writing beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code through the SETPIXELS command...

Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop for Mac Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Windows Server are both products of Microsoft Corporation.Microsoft Windows is an operating system for personal devices.Microsoft Windows Server is a server operating system. Microsoft Windows Server is a server operating system. Remote Desktop Services is one of t...

The vulnerability of the CoRRE decoder’s VNC client, a software tool for managing remote desktops like UltraVNC, allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the CoRRE decoder’s VNC client, a software component for managing remote desktops such as UltraVNC, lies in the reading of data beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code remotely...

The vulnerability of the Ultra decoder component of the VNC client software for remote desktop management tools, UltraVNC, allows a intruder to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the Ultra decoder component in the VNC client software for remote desktop management tools, UltraVNC, relates to the execution of operations beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code remotely...

CVE-2020-0919

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop App for Mac in the way it allows an attacker to load unsigned binaries, aka 'Microsoft Remote Desktop App for Mac Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop App for Mac in the way it allows an attacker to load unsigned binaries, aka 'Microsoft Remote Desktop App for Mac Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

CVE-2020-0919

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop App for Mac in the way it allows an attacker to load unsigned binaries, aka 'Microsoft Remote Desktop App for Mac Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

CVE-2020-0919

CVE-2020-0919 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Remote Desktop App for Mac caused by improper handling of unsigned binaries during load/signature validation. Reported impact is privilege escalation for an attacker who gains access to the user’s system and can execute cod...

Microsoft Remote Desktop App for Mac Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop App for Mac in the way it allows an attacker to load unsigned binaries. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data with the logged in user's privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would hav...

FreeRDP suffers from a denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2020-26302)

FreeRDP is a free, open source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol RDP developed by the FreeRDP team. FreeRDP suffers from a denial of service vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to connect to a server with malformed data to launch a denial of service attack...

FreeRDP suffers from a denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2020-26304)

FreeRDP is a free, open source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol RDP developed by the FreeRDP team. FreeRDP suffers from a denial of service vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to connect to a server with malformed data to launch a denial of service attack...

FreeRDP suffers from a denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2020-26303)

FreeRDP is a free, open source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol RDP developed by the FreeRDP team. FreeRDP suffers from a denial of service vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to connect to a server with malformed data to launch a denial of service attack...

FreeRDP suffers from a denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2020-26301)

FreeRDP is a free, open source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol RDP developed by the FreeRDP team. FreeRDP suffers from a denial of service vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to connect to a server with malformed data to launch a denial of service attack...

PT-2020-2256

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Remote Desktop App for Mac affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to insufficient access restrictions in the Microsoft Remote Desktop App for Mac, allowing an attacker to elevate their privileges. This can b...

Update to support RDP restricted administration for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

Update to support RDP restricted administration for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 About this update This Remote Desktop Protocol RDP update lets users use Remote Desktop Connection without sending their credentials to the remote computer. This helps prevent credential and credential hash thef...

Update for RDC 7.1 to support restricted administration logons on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Update for RDC 7.1 to support restricted administration logons on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 About this update This Remote Desktop Protocol RDP 7.1 update enables the Remote Desktop Connection client to perform restricted administration logons. It also enables the Remote Desktop Service...

Smart card redirection in remote sessions fails in a Windows 7 SP1-based RDP 8.1 client

Smart card redirection in remote sessions fails in a Windows 7 SP1-based RDP 8.1 client Symptoms Assume that you install the Remote Desktop Connection RDC 8.1 client update KB 2830477 on a computer that is running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. You remotely connect th...