KeePass Vulnerability Exposes Master Passwords to Theft
TL;DR Summary
A vulnerability in the KeePass password manager can be exploited to retrieve the master password from the software's memory. A PoC exploitation tool is publicly available, but the password can't be extracted remotely just by exploiting this flaw. The vulnerability affects the KeePass 2.X branch for Windows, and possibly for Linux and macOS. It has been fixed in the test versions of KeePass v2.54, with the official release expected by July 2023. KeepassXC, a fork of KeePassX, is not affected.
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