Apache Guacamole: Incorrect calculation of Guacamole protocol element lengths
Priority LOW 35CWE-131Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Apache Guacamole 1.5.1 and older may incorrectly calculate the lengths of instruction elements sent during the Guacamole protocol handshake, potentially allowing an attacker to inject Guacamole instructions during the handshake through specially-crafted data.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.01007 63rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-30575
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jcgp-rv79-q77m
References
More Apache Guacamole vulnerabilities
- TI-2019-14123 SQLite 3.30.1 mishandles certain SELECT statements with a nonexistent VIEW, leading to an application crash. CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-23512 Apache Guacamole: Integer overflow in handling of VNC image buffers CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2021-19751 Improper validation of SAML responses CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-14404 Apache Guacamole: Use-after-free in handling of RDP audio input buffer CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2017-02374 Race condition in Apache Guacamole CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.1
- TI-2018-01241 Prior to 1.0.0, Apache Guacamole used a cookie for client-side storage of the user's… CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2023-30575 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-30575 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-jcgp-rv79-q77m · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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