KeePass Vulnerability: Hackers May Have Stolen the Master Passwords

One would expect an ideal password manager to at least keep their users’ passwords safe and secure. On the contrary, a new major vulnerability turned out to be putting the KeePass password manager users at serious risk of their passwords being breached.

Apparently, the vulnerability enables an attacker to extract the master password from the target computer’s memory and take it away in plain text, or in other words, in an unencrypted form. Although it is a fairly easy hack, there are expected to be some unsettling repercussions.

Password managers, like in this case KeePass, lock up a user’s login info encrypted and secure behind a master password in order to keep it safe. The vault is a valuable target for hackers since the user is required to input the master password to access everything within.

How is KeePass Vulnerability a Problem?

Security researcher ‘vdohney,’ according to a report by Bleeping Computer, found the KeePass vulnerability and posted a proof-of-concept (PoC) program on GitHub.

With the exception of the initial one or two characters, this tool can almost entirely extract the master password in readable, unencrypted form. Even if KeePass is locked and, possibly, if the app is completely closed, it is still capable of doing this.

All this is because the vulnerability extracts the master password from KeePass’s memory. This can be acquired, as the researcher says, in a number of ways: “It doesn’t matter where the memory comes from — can be the proc

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