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CVE-2024-33901

Status: AnalyzedMedium (6.5)—💥 PoC

Issue in KeePassXC 2.7.7 allows an attacker (who has the privileges of the victim) to recover some passwords stored in the .kdbx database via a memory dump. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because memory-management constraints make this unavoidable in the current design and other realistic designs.

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Affected technologies (1)

Keepassxc — Keepassxc

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