BSI warnt vor KeePassXC-Schwachstellen / BSI warns of vulnerabilities in the password manager KeePassXC

Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org – 14 points – 1 years ago

heisec@social.heise.de - BSI warnt vor KeePassXC-Schwachstellen

Das BSI warnt vor Schwachstellen im Passwort-Manager KeePassXC. Angreifer können Dateien oder das Master-Passwort ohne Authentifzierungsrückfrage manipulieren.

[The BSI warns of vulnerabilities in the password manager KeePassXC. Attackers can manipulate files or the master password without authentication confirmation.]

KeePassXC is not affected by this vulnerability.

CVE-2023-32784

That's not the issue mentioned in the article. Which is CVE-2023-35866.

gotcha

Added to original comment. Both are recent issues, so confusion is forgivable.

This is also the vulnerability that made many people delete Keepass 2 for XC many months ago so it is very strange that they make an article that sounds like it's a new vulnerability.

Wrong vulnerability. The discovered one is CVE-2023-35866, which is still pending verification* (analysis).

This affects KeePassXC. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-35866

Thanks for the correction. In that case going to be interesting how this issue progress.

Here is KeePassXC's response: https://keepassxc.org/blog/2023-06-20-cve-202335866

Basically some random guy with weird misconceptions about security decided this was an issue, it's obviously not. Honestly concerning that he was able to easily get a CVE for this and even get articles about it published on some websites.

Can't read German. What is it required to perform this attack?

Ok I checked it up (CVE-2023-35866). It basically says an attacker may export everything if they have access to your unlocked database. Which seems... obvious? The project contributors says it's not a vulnerability which I incline to agree.

You mean to say that if I leave my door unlocked, somebody might come in? This is shocking news!

Lock the pc, if you leave and lock the db, if pc is locked, lid is closed and this is absolute a non-issue.

German BSI is sometimes a little bit over motivated ;-)

You don't even need to lock the pc, locking the db is sufficient. The issue allows changing the settings on unlocked databases without needing to re-confirm (at least according to the article).

Why is there no link to the article?

There is of you click on the image.

On Jerboa(List View) the link is on the thumbail, maybe it's the same in the browser version. Keep in mind that the article on heise is in german.

there is.