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CVE-2024-33901

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-316

Description

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.

Affected products

• KeePassXC: 2.7.7

References

• https://gist.github.com/Fastor01/30c6d89c842feb1865ec2cd2d3806838
• https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10784
• https://keepassxc.org/blog/
• https://keepassxc.org/blog/2019-02-21-memory-security/
• https://gist.github.com/Fastor01/30c6d89c842feb1865ec2cd2d3806838
• https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10784
• https://keepassxc.org/blog/
• https://keepassxc.org/blog/2019-02-21-memory-security/

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