CVE-2026-96541: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A denial-of-service flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop. An unauthenticated remote attacker can open RDP connections without completing the handshake and retain the connection-throttling slots indefinitely because no pre-authentication handshake deadline is enforced. By exhausting the global connection limit, an attacker can prevent new RDP clients from connecting until a holding socket is closed.

Affected products

• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Published 2026-09-23. Last modified 2026-09-24.