Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affecting keepassxreboot/keepassxc package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-KEEPASSXREBOOTKEEPASSXC-6928984
  • published 21 May 2024
  • disclosed 20 May 2024
  • credit Fastor

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for keepassxreboot/keepassxc.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in the password recovery process, when the database is open. An attacker can recover some passwords stored in the .kdbx database by exploiting this issue.

PoC

string -e b <filename> | grep "YOUR STORED PASSWORD"

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

6.2 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None