It was discovered that FreeRDP contained multiple security issues. An attacker could possibly use these issues to obtain sensitive information, cause FreeRDP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code.
USN-8836-1: FreeRDP vulnerabilities
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