• phaedrus@piefed.world
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    2 days ago

    You don’t host anything with KeePass, it’s an application that you install. People use this type of software literally every single day. I’m not sure where you get your information from. There was no “leak”, it was an attack that someone could execute if they had access to your physical machine and only used a master password without a keyfile. If someone didn’t have that, they don’t have your master password, because it doesn’t go to the cloud at all. It’s all entirely local. Stop handing out misinformation like candy.

    edit: the actual CVE: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32784

    Vulnerabilities happen, end of story. Like I said, what matters is the maintainers’ reaction and how open they are about the details. If you rely on other people/developers to handle your OpSec for you, then you shouldn’t be using computers at all and are putting yourself at risk no matter what software you use.

    And if this is your litmus test, then holy shit do I have some bad news for you about iOS/Android/Linux/Windows/macOS/literally any web browser… and I guarantee that whatever you use now for your password manager has it’s own share of issues regarding security, which again points back to taking care of your own OpSec instead of relying on others.

    Expect shit to hit the fan, and you’ll always be prepared when it does.

    • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
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      1 day ago

      Hm, neat. Thanks for the cve ref. Seems KeePassXC was unaffected.

      Issue was residue of typed characters left in memory (managed by .NET). This means the attacker needs to be able to dump memory and search it. If they can do that on your machine, you have other problems. They could probably just keylog you to the same effect with that level of access (on x11 anyways).