FreeRDP before 3.31.0 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the URBDRC control-transfer request path that fails to validate OutputBufferSize before forwarding to the libusb backend. A malicious RDP server can send a control-transfer request with OutputBufferSize set to 65536, triggering a reachable assertion that terminates the client process.
CVE-2026-91961
Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-15. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 6.5(high)
- EG Risk
- 29(Track)EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity65% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 28%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 15, 2026
Last Modified
September 18, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Sep 15, 2026FreeRDP before 3.31.0 Denial of Service via URBDRC | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/freerdp-before-3.31.0-denial-of-service-via-urbdrcURBDRC/libusb control-transfer path aborts on reachable OutputBufferSize assertion · Advisory · FreeRDP/FreeRDP · GitHub
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-w9qg-g24r-77f6Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-91961(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 17× in last 7d / 17× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-09-19 19:59 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-19 19:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-18 18:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-18 18:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-18 17:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-18 17:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-17 22:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-17 22:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-17 19:32 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-16 21:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-16 17:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-16 17:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-16 14:09 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-15 16:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-15 15:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-15 15:22 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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