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CVE-2023-38840
Bitwarden Desktop 2023.7.0 and below allows an attacker with local access to obtain sensitive information via the Bitwarden.exe process.
Medium5.5EPSS 0.52%
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- mitre
Description
Bitwarden Desktop 2023.7.0 and below allows an attacker with local access to obtain sensitive information via the Bitwarden.exe process.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 21 days later
· 21 days later
Published
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.52% · top 56% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- https://redmaple.tech/blogs/2023/extract-bitwarden-vault-passwords/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/markuta/bw-dump (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/476 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/pull/5813 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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