{"id":"CVE-2023-24055","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2023-24055","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:54:18.895Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2023-01-22T04:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:38:34.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-312"],"affected":["keepass/keepass"],"epss":{"score":0.03691,"percentile":0.8963,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.69%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://securityboulevard.com/2023/01/keepass-password-manager-leak-cve-richixbw/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/a146e5cf6b/","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/feature-requests/2773/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://securityboulevard.com/2023/01/keepass-password-manager-leak-cve-richixbw/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/a146e5cf6b/","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/feature-requests/2773/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24055","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}