CVE-2011-1595: Rdesktop

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the disk_create function in disk.c in rdesktop before 1.7.0, when disk redirection is enabled, allows remote RDP servers to read or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname.

Affected products

• Rdesktop Rdesktop: up to and including 1.6.0; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.3.0 only; version 1.3.1 only; …

Published 2011-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.