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CVE-2023-38840

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-08-15 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Bitwarden Desktop 2023.7.0 and below allows an attacker with local access to obtain sensitive information via the Bitwarden.exe process.

Affected products

• Bitwarden: through 2023.7.0

References

• https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/pull/5813
• https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/476
• https://github.com/markuta/bw-dump
• https://redmaple.tech/blogs/2023/extract-bitwarden-vault-passwords/
• https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/pull/5813
• https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/476
• https://github.com/markuta/bw-dump
• https://redmaple.tech/blogs/2023/extract-bitwarden-vault-passwords/

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