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New KeePass Password Manager Exploit Can Draw a Plaintext Master Password From a Memory Dump - CPO Magazine

This CPO Magazine press article, published May 29, 2023, reports on a newly disclosed KeePass password manager exploit that can reconstruct a plaintext master password from traces left in system memory if that memory is dumped. Casey Ellis is credited in this press coverage, though no statement from him is attributed here.

Source description, as published

Another vulnerability that can expose master passwords in KeePass has surfaced, after one was discovered to start the year. The new security exploit involves traces of the password being left in system memory, and potentially reassembled if the memory is dumped.

Inventors / authors: Scott Ikeda