7.5highHigh
CVE-2026-73108
RustDesk versions before 1.4.7 contain an uncontrolled speculative memory allocation vulnerability in BytesCodec. Before authentication, the decoder trusts the payload length encoded in a four-byte frame header and reserves that amount before receiving the payload. A crafted header can request up to 1,073,741,823 bytes of capacity, allowing unauthenticated attackers to use concurrent TCP connections to cause memory exhaustion and denial of service. The fix caps header-triggered speculative preallocation at 256 KiB.
What the metrics mean
- It is reachable over a network, without needing local access.
- For an attacker who can reach it, no special conditions are needed to exploit it.
- To exploit it, no account is needed.
- Beyond that, no action by a user is required.
Scoring
- CVSS
- 7.5 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- CVSS v4
- 8.7
- Weakness
- CWE-770
- Assigned by
- disclosure@vulncheck.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-08-28
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://github.com/rustdesk/hbb_common/commit/547da54b4ee58eed47163fbd47edb4639e3d88de
- https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/commit/518296f2570d107ad416f29ade5fcce3177f4115
- https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/releases/tag/1.4.7
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rustdesk-uncontrolled-memory-allocation-dos-via-bytescodec