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KeePass Vulnerability allows export of clear-text credentials
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KeePass Vulnerability allows export of clear-text credentials

KeePass: "That sounds like a 'you' problem."

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Jan 30, 2023
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An exploit PoC has been shared publicly for CVE-2023-24055, which relates to the ability for an attacker to add an export trigger within the KeePass XML configuration file, enabling them to dump clear-text passwords from the Password Manager.

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Figure 1: The credentials are dumped in plain-text to an xml file

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