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CVE-2023-24055

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-01-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-312

Description

KeePass through 2.53 (in a default installation) allows an attacker, who has write access to the XML configuration file, to obtain the cleartext passwords by adding an export trigger. NOTE: the vendor's position is that the password database is not intended to be secure against an attacker who has that level of access to the local PC.

Affected products

• KeePass: through 2.53

References

• https://securityboulevard.com/2023/01/keepass-password-manager-leak-cve-richixbw/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/a146e5cf6b/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/feature-requests/2773/
• https://securityboulevard.com/2023/01/keepass-password-manager-leak-cve-richixbw/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/a146e5cf6b/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/feature-requests/2773/

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