GNOME Remote Desktop: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of Service
WID-SEC-2025-1501 · first 09.07.2025 · updated 29.04.2026 · CVSS 7,4
What it is about
GNOME ist ein graphischer Desktop auf Unix Systemen. Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in GNOME Remote Desktop ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
Under what conditions?
Over the network and without logging in. This is the most dangerous combination: attackers can scan reachable devices automatically.
What can happen in the worst case
An attacker could use the vulnerability to
- einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen
Am I affected?
Affected according to the BSI:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Fedora Linux
- SUSE Linux
- Oracle Linux
- SUSE openSUSE
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux <10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux <9
- Open Source GNOME Remote Desktop
The installed version is usually shown under “Help → About” or in the device’s admin interface.
What helps?
Update to at least:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Is the vulnerability already being exploited?
None of the CVEs is in the CISA catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities. That does not mean there are no attacks, only that none are documented.
Information and sources
- Original BSI advisory (WID)
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:10631 vom 2025-07-08 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:10635 vom 2025-07-08 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Advisory CVE-2025-5024 access.redhat.com
- Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2025-10635 vom 2025-07-09 linux.oracle.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:10742 vom 2025-07-10 access.redhat.com
- Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2025-10631 vom 2025-07-09 linux.oracle.com
- Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2025-10742 vom 2025-07-10 linux.oracle.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:11405 vom 2025-07-21 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:11407 vom 2025-07-21 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:11408 vom 2025-07-21 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:11404 vom 2025-07-21 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:11418 vom 2025-07-21 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:11406 vom 2025-07-21 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:11403 vom 2025-07-21 access.redhat.com
- openSUSE Security Update OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10186-1 vom 2026-02-13 lists.opensuse.org
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2026:0766-1 vom 2026-03-03 lists.suse.com
- Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2026-409856189A vom 2026-03-17 bodhi.fedoraproject.org
- openSUSE Security Update OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20590-1 vom 2026-04-22 lists.opensuse.org
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2026:21362-1 vom 2026-04-28 lists.suse.com
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2026:1646-1 vom 2026-04-29 lists.suse.com
CVE: CVE-2025-5024
Source: BSI warning and information service (CERT-Bund); CISA. The assessment of the conditions is my reading of the BSI text; the external pages are in their original language.