CVE-2022-39347: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients. Affected versions of FreeRDP are missing path canonicalization and base path check for `drive` channel. A malicious server can trick a FreeRDP based client to read files outside the shared directory. This issue has been addressed in version 2.9.0 and all users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should not use the `/drive`, `/drives` or `+home-drive` redirection switch.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 36 only; version 37 only
• Freerdp Freerdp: before 2.9.0 (fixed in 2.9.0)

Published 2022-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.