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KeePass exploit helps retrieve cleartext master password, fix coming soon

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Dissent

Bill Toulas reports:

The popular KeePass password manager is vulnerable to extracting the master password from the application’s memory, allowing attackers who compromise a device to retrieve the password even with the database is locked.

The issue was discovered by a security researcher known as ‘vdohney,’ who published a proof-of-concept tool allowing attackers to extract the KeePass master password from memory as a proof-of-concept (PoC).

Read more at BleepingComputer.

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1 thought on “KeePass exploit helps retrieve cleartext master password, fix coming soon”

  1. Jim says:
    May 19, 2023 at 11:01 am

    As the article notes, KeePassXC isn’t affected. And KeePassXC works well across both Windows and Linux; I don’t know of a reason not to use it instead of KeePass.

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