# Gnome-remote-desktop: inadequate validation of session agents using d-bus methods may expose rdp tls certificate

CVE record · `CVE-2024-5148`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2024-5148`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.5 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** redhat
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-488](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/488.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-488](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-488.md)
- **Technologies:** [Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-enterprise-linux-10.md) · [Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-enterprise-linux-8.md) · [Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-enterprise-linux-9.md)
- **Published:** 2 Sept 2024
- **Updated:** 5 Nov 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 2 Sept 2024, 11:03 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Not given. Product: Not given.
  - affected: `46.alpha to before 46.2` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
  - Package name: `gnome-remote-desktop`
  - Collection: `https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.
  - No versions given
  - Other versions: unaffected
  - Package name: `gnome-remote-desktop`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
  - No versions given
  - Other versions: unaffected
  - Package name: `gnome-remote-desktop`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
  - No versions given
  - Other versions: unaffected
  - Package name: `gnome-remote-desktop`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.5 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`, from CNA (redhat)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0057, the 47th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 2 Sept 2024, 11:03 UTC: [Confirmed by the CVE List](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5148)
- 2 Sept 2024, 12:15 UTC: [Confirmed by NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5148)

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2024-5148](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5148)
- [NVD: CVE-2024-5148](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5148)

### References from the CNA

- <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5148> (vdb-entry, redhat)
- <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282003> (issue-tracking, redhat)
- <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/issues/196>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

## Check whether this affects you

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- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/CVE-2024-5148>
- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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