CVE-2023-38840Bitwarden Desktop 2023.7.0 and below allows an attacker with local access to obtain sensitive information via the Bitwarden.exe process.

5.5MediumCVSS base score
0.52%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 56% of all CVEs
NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
NonePublic exploitsnone known yet

Description

Bitwarden Desktop 2023.7.0 and below allows an attacker with local access to obtain sensitive information via the Bitwarden.exe process.

Timeline

2023
25 Jul 2023
25 Jul 2023
ID reserved
By mitre
15 Aug 202321 days later
15 Aug 2023· 21 days later
Published
2024
8 Oct 202414 months later
8 Oct 2024· 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2023-38840, by who scored it
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 (14 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC: Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Affected products

n/a
- affected n/a

References4

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.

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Record last updated 8 Oct 2024, 20:45 UTC.